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Embodiment
For those traveling through North East Kansas, Lawrence is the place to stop. This exciting university town welcomes the curious traveler like no other place, a pleasure island in the Kansas prairie. The KU Spenser Museum of Art will be showing Embodiment until February 19, 2006. A cool exhibition, a challenging concept:
"Embodiment expresses the idea that the body and mind form a unity, in contrast to the notion that has prevailed in Europe and America ever since the writings of the seventeenth-century philosopher, Rene Descartes, that the body and mind form a duality. Works of art from different cultures that concern the body and its adornment offer valuable opportunities for discussing the evolving ideas of embodiment".
Above, "Black Children with White Doll" (1942) by Gordon Parks, a gelatin silver print. To further contribute to the "embodiment" discussion, I would like to add those abrupt, distorted bodies as seen by Paula Rego, Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon (by this order, below).
Paula Rego's "Second Panel" from the Dancing Ostriches from Disney's Fantasia.
Lucian Freud's "Large Interior W.9 (1973). Thank yu, www.artchive!
Francis Bacon's "Reclining Man with Sculpture" (1960-61) from the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.
"How do we really look? What do we see and how can this be described?", from The Embodiment of Art by Joan Beadle.