In Praise of the Backside 120 illustrations E-Book

Hans-Jürgen Döpp

• Herausgeber: Parkstone International
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

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Beschreibung

In Praise of the Backside 120 illustrations

Leseprobe

Hans-Jürgen Döpp

In Praise of the

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© 2014, Parkstone Press USA, New York

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Unless otherwise specified, copyright on the works reproduced lies with the respective photographers. Despite intensive research, it has not always been possible to establish copyright ownership. Where this is the case, we would appreciate notification.

ISBN: 978-1-78160-965-1

Contents

LOVE’S BODY

THE REALM OF THE MOONS OF FLESH: A JOURNEY INTO THE SUBCONSCIOUS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A

“Au trèfle” brand

“Au trèfle” brand

Admiration

Allegory of Fertility (Homage to Pomona)

Angelica and Medoro

Arabesque Over the Right Leg, Right Hand Near the Ground, Left Arm Outstreched

B

Baigneuse or The Source

Be Mysterious

Behind the Scene

Bride (unfinished)

C

Christ and Mary Magdalene

E

Easter eggs

Ecclesiastes

Eve after the Sin

F

Female Nude with Long Hair Leaning Backward

G

Goldfish

Gothic Bathroom

H

Hebe and Proserpina

I

Illustration from Dante’s Divine Comedy, “The Thieves and the Serpents”, Inferno XXIV, 88-100

In the Waves (Ondine)

J

J. A. series 55

J. R. series 31

Jupiter and Io

K

Kneeling Female Faun

L

La Grande Odalisque

Leda and the Swan

M

Manao Tupapau (Spirit of the Dead Watching)

Morning in a City

Mother and Child

N

N° 7

N° 17

N° 21

N° 25

N° 58

N° 60

N° 67

N° 68

N° 171

N° 184

N° 201

N° 204

N° 252

N° 253

N° 267

N° 499

N° 510

N° 3180

N° B301

No7, Biederer Studio

Nude

Nude Couple, Woman Seated (Figure Study)

Nude in Front of a Mirror

Nude Lying down and Huddling

Nude Lying on a Sofa

Nude Woman Combing her Hair

Nude Woman Lying on Her Stomach

P

P. C., N° 65

Paris N° 18

Photograph for “Diana Slip”

Photograph for “Diana Slip”

Photograph for “Diana Slip”

Portrait of Carlotta Chabert (Venus playing with two doves)

P

Reclining Female Nude

Reclining Girl

Sleep

Sleeping Hermaphrodite

Smiling Face

Susanna Bathing

T

The Bath, Woman Washing Herself

The Bathers

The Birth of Venus

The Charm

The Dream or The Sleeping Nymph

The Odalisque

The Pastoral Concert

The Peacock and Juno

The Procuress

The Rape of Europa

The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus

The Rape of the Sabines

The Roman Odalisque (Marietta)

The Source

The Source

The Three Graces

The Three Graces

The Three Graces

The Toilet of Venus

The Toilet of Venus

The Toilet of Venus (The Rokeby Venus)

The Turkish Bath

The Valpinçon Bather

Two Athenian Women in Distress

Two Girls (Lovers)

U

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V

Venus and Mars

Venus in Front of the Mirror

W

Water Snakes II

Woman Bitten by a Snake

Woman Drying Her Left Foot

Woman Drying Herself

Woman with a Towel

No 7, Biederer Studio

c. 1925. Gelatin silver print, 24 x 18 cm. Private collection.

“Our arses should be signs of peace!”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Three Graces

Anonymous, Roman copy of a Greek original created during the 2nd century B.C.E. (restored in 1609). Marble, 119 x 85 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris

Love’s Body

As we fragment the body, we make its parts the subject of a fetish. Each individual part can become a focus of erotic passion, an object of fetishist adoration. On the other hand, the body as a whole is still the sum of its parts.

The division of the body that we carry out here brings to mind the worship of relics. Relic worship began in the Middle Ages with the adoration of the bones of martyrs and was based on the belief that the body parts of saints possessed a special power. In this respect, each fetishist, however enlightened he pretends to be, pays homage to relic worship.

At first, this dismemberment only happened to saints, in accordance with the belief that in paradise the body will become whole again. Only later were other powerful people such as bishops and kings also unearthed after their deaths. In our cultural survey of body parts, we are particularly concerned with the history of those with “erotic significance”.

Regardless of whether their significance is religious or erotic, they all attain the greatest importance for both the believer and the lover because of the attraction and power inherent within them. This way, fetishist heritage of older cultures survives in both the believer and the lover.

O Body, how graciously you let my soul

Feel the happiness, that I myself keep secret,

And while the brave tongue shies away,

From all that there is to praise, that brings me joy,

Could you, O Body, be any more powerful,

Yes, without you nothing is complete,

Even the Spirit is not tangible, it melts away

Like hazy shadows or fleeting wind.

Anatomical Blazons of the Female Body appeared in 1536, a newly printed, multi-volume collection of odes to each individual body part. These poems, praising parts of the female body, constituted an early form of sexual fetishism. “Never,” wrote Hartmut Böhme, “does it sing the ‘whole body,’ let alone the persona of the adored, but rather it is a rhetorical exposition of parts or elements of the body”. In these poems, head and womb represented the “central organs”. It was to be expected that representatives of the church suspected a new form of idolatry in this poetic approach and identified a sinful indecency in this depiction of female nakedness:

To sing of female organs,

To bring them to God’s ears,

Is madness and idolatry,

For which the earth will cry on Judgment day.

Sleeping Hermaphrodite