The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity and Sexuality
The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity and Sexuality
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女性裸体:艺术、淫秽与性
DOI:
10.1057/fr.1994.36
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发表时间:
1994
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影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
C. Evans
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作者:
C. Evans
Hermeneutics and erotics are explictly connected by Amelia G. Jones who, in her essay on Duchamp, argues that interpretation is repressed sexuality. Invoking Freud she says' the struggle for meaning is necessarily an erotic exchange'(p. 22). Our desire to know, to interpret, or to fix meaning is provoked by the ambiguity ofDuchamp masquerading as a woman. As interpretercritics we put ourselves in the same position of authoritative knowledge as the analyst.'Like Duchamp'she concludes,'I am implicated, through my interpretive production, in relations of desire'(p. 27). Here the ambivalence of Duchamp's masquerade with gender is critically related to the ambivalence of interpretation, as Jones sets up one meaning and then proceeds to destabilize it with a contradictory one, in what Duchamp himself called'a little game between" I" and" me"'(p. 30). There are no such games in