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What does Botticelli’s Venus have in common with the contemporary Instagram stars? How did the influential renaissance concept of “figura serpentinata” become a pornographic backbone of contemporary sexual imagery? How did Michelangelo’s infernal orgies survive into the present time, disguised as the images of destruction? What does the adjective "PORNOGRAPHIC" mean, after all? While addressing these questions, the course will provide a practical introduction to iconology as it has been defined and practiced by Aby M. Warburg and Ernst Cassirer in the 1920s and 1930s (and is still highly influential today). Concerning their mutually influenced methodology, the course will interpret the critical aspects of the “nameless science” by exposing and analyzing complicated genealogy of the specific spectrum of surprisingly interrelated (and no less surprisingly PORNOGRAPHIC) images like selfies, underwear advertising, cloud imagery, abstract painting, war atrocities or hygiene-related illustrations.
Poslední úprava: Váša Ondřej, Mgr., Ph.D. (20.04.2026)
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Topics: 1) Introduction: Representing Human Body 2) Between Plato and Ficino: philosophical origins of “figura serpentinata” 3) Between Michelangelo and Lomazzo: (de)erotizing bodies 4) Lomazzo’s influence on Hogarth 5) Movement and eroticism in Hogarth’s “The Analysis of Beauty” 6) Unexpected consequences of Hogarth’s mistakes: William Hogarth as the father of the “modern line” 7) Hygienic discourse of the 18th century: clean outlines of the healthy bodies 8) Art Nouveau and its implications: “figura serpentinata” runs wild 9) “Cloud turn” in art: the demise of the line and the victory of the flesh 10) Fascist reactions: individual erotic wilderness vs. hollow social bodies 11) Figura serpentinata and the contemporary anatomical imagination: spirituality held in check 12) Between war and pornography: contemporary survivals of the renaissance concepts Poslední úprava: Juríková Mária, Bc. (17.04.2026)
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