Browsing: Body

Nazmi Ziya Güran’s Dancer centers on a backward-leaning female figure whose closed eyes, suspended posture, patterned fabric, and undefined setting transform dance into an inward bodily experience.

Picou stages Cleopatra’s political defeat through the contrast between her exposed, gesturing body and Octavian’s distant, controlled withdrawal.

Hans Belting expands art history through the body–image–medium model, cultural memory, global image circulation, visual anthropology, media, and digital visual culture.

Eve’s luminous frontal body dominates the composition while Adam recedes behind her, surrounded by flowers, animal skins, ornament, and an unfinished dark surface.

A psychoanalytic essay on Kristeva’s abject as a theory of disgust, bodily boundaries, female corporeality, mythology, art, and the politics of exclusion.