My paper is aimed at evaluating that the body is a culturally and socially negotiated project as much as its health and diseases and that each culture has its own social and artistic representation of the healthy and sick body. So the perception of sickness (more social than natural) is related both to the historical sequences of the corporeal schema and to the health practices. According to Kantorowicz, we can distinguish two patterns of body: the real body (Körper ), the body of flesh, and the social, political and symbolic body (Leib), suggesting the old dual relation between soul and body. The symbolic body can make the individual body eternal by means of art. It is just beginning from here, examining uses of the arts in public health and health care, that we can try to approach the complex reasons that have guided the figurative art of twenty centuries towards so different roads in the figurative and social representation of the body.

"Healthy and safe body. Social figures and art paradoxes"

VERDI, LAURA
2008

Abstract

My paper is aimed at evaluating that the body is a culturally and socially negotiated project as much as its health and diseases and that each culture has its own social and artistic representation of the healthy and sick body. So the perception of sickness (more social than natural) is related both to the historical sequences of the corporeal schema and to the health practices. According to Kantorowicz, we can distinguish two patterns of body: the real body (Körper ), the body of flesh, and the social, political and symbolic body (Leib), suggesting the old dual relation between soul and body. The symbolic body can make the individual body eternal by means of art. It is just beginning from here, examining uses of the arts in public health and health care, that we can try to approach the complex reasons that have guided the figurative art of twenty centuries towards so different roads in the figurative and social representation of the body.
2008
PERFORMING BIOGRAPHIES,MEMORY AND THE ART OF INTERPRETATION
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