Nikutai No Meikyu (Chiku Ma Gakugei Bunko)

[Machine Translation] A body that twists, twitches, wounds, and rots. This book vividly discusses all the problems derived from this topos. The book includes "The Aesthetics of 'Japanese-ness'," which discusses how the Japanese, who had only a diluted image of the body because of their privileged use of "nature" as a subject matter, confronted Western art with its quantitative representation of the body after the Meiji period. The Pope Shouting" by Francis Bacon, and other works. This is an original theory of representation that freely traverses art, literature, and philosophy of the East and West, and discusses the aesthetic sense that wrestled with the "body.

ねじれ、ひきつり、傷つき、腐る肉体。このトポスに派生するあらゆる問題系を鮮やかに論じる。「自然」を特権的な画題としてきたゆえに、希薄な肉体のイメージしか持たなかった日本人が、明治以降、量塊的な肉体表象を持つ西洋美術に対峙した過程を取り上げた「『日本人離れ』の美学」をはじめ、ユイスマンスが魅せられたグリューネヴァルトの磔刑図、フランシス・ベーコンの叫ぶ教皇などの作品を取り上げる。東西の美術・文学・哲学を自在に横断しながら、“肉体”と格闘した美意識を論じる独創的な表象論。