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- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright
- © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-56254-0
- Pages
- 185 –209
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-56255-7_7
- Publisher site
- See Chapter on Publisher Site
Abstract
[This chapter focuses on the body’s instantiations in art of religious inspiration both during and after the fall of Romanian communism. The main argument put forth is that human body is rendered, in the artistic production under scrutiny, as a multidirectional instrument for both salvation and resistance to oppression. The artistic renderings of the human body analysed in this chapter display a vision of the physical body as a site of religious rituals and sacraments but also of the realization of the highest human potentiality for freedom and salvation of the soul through “self-care” that does not preclude the care for other human beings. For the artists discussed in this chapter being a body takes precedence over having a body.]
Published: Oct 23, 2020
Keywords: The collective body in communism; Desexualized bodies in communism; Body-soul; Having a body; Being a body; New Man’s body