Women's Studies 2159A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Weight-Bearing, Linda Carter, Antonio Da Correggio
19 Apr 2016
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Our culture does not put illness and sexuality together invisibility to sexuality when talking about illness, that sexuality is no longer important to you"re if sick. Rare to see illness and sexuality linked in art unless artist wants to depict something negative. Physical and psychological illness depicted with nudity to suggest lack of civility, control, and lack of individuality o. He visited sick soldiers of bubonic plague, artist shows them nude. Nudity showing lack of civility rather than sexuality. Physical illness + illness = lack of civility and chaos not sexuality. Nudity with psychological illness also portrays the same lack of civility and no longer references tempting sexuality. This is how society has equated nudity with illness. Nudity not related to something sexy but with ugly illness and lack of appropriateness. Woman in a wheelchair, touching herself infront of nude man.
