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    In Praise of the Backside 120 illustrations
    In Praise of the Backside 120 illustrations
    In Praise of the Backside 120 illustrations
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    In Praise of the Backside 120 illustrations

    By Hans-Jürgen Döpp

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    Mega Square In Praise of the Backside celebrates the most sensual part of the female body. The insightful text by Hans-Jürgen Döpp discusses the backside as a feature that stands for both powerful eroticism and supple femininity, seducing famous artists from every genre. This title is sure to entice and delight a wide audience with its lively, provocative images.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParkstone International
    Release dateDec 5, 2022
    ISBN9781781609651
    In Praise of the Backside 120 illustrations

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    In Praise of the Backside 120 illustrations - Hans-Jürgen Döpp

    No 7, Biederer Studio

    c. 1925. Gelatin silver print, 24 x 18 cm. Private collection.

    Our arses should be signs of peace!

    — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Three Graces

    Anonymous, Roman copy of a Greek original created during the 2nd century B.C.E. (restored in 1609). Marble, 119 x 85 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris

    Love’s Body

    As we fragment the body, we make its parts the subject of a fetish. Each individual part can become a focus of erotic passion, an object of fetishist adoration. On the other hand, the body as a whole is still the sum of its parts.

    The division of the body that we carry out here brings to mind the worship of relics. Relic worship began in the Middle Ages with the adoration of the bones of martyrs and was based on the belief that the body parts of saints possessed a special power. In this respect, each fetishist, however enlightened he pretends to be, pays homage to relic worship.

    At first, this dismemberment only happened to saints, in accordance with the belief that in paradise the body will become whole again. Only later were other powerful people such as bishops and kings also unearthed after their deaths. In our cultural survey of body parts, we are particularly concerned with the history of those with erotic significance.

    Regardless of whether their significance is religious or erotic, they all attain the greatest importance for both the believer and the lover because of the attraction and power inherent within them. This way, fetishist heritage of older cultures survives in both the believer and the lover.

    O Body, how graciously you let my soul

    Feel the happiness, that I myself keep secret,

    And while the brave tongue shies away,

    From all that there is to praise, that brings me joy,

    Could you, O Body, be any more powerful,

    Yes, without you nothing is complete,

    Even the Spirit is not tangible, it melts away

    Like hazy shadows or fleeting wind.

    Anatomical Blazons of the Female Body appeared in 1536, a newly printed, multi-volume collection of odes to each individual body part. These poems, praising parts of the female body, constituted an early form of sexual fetishism. Never, wrote Hartmut Böhme, does it sing the ‘whole body,’ let alone the persona of the adored, but rather it is a rhetorical exposition of parts or elements of the body. In these poems, head and womb represented the central organs. It was to be expected that representatives of the church suspected a new form of idolatry in this poetic approach and identified a sinful indecency in this depiction of female nakedness:

    To sing of female organs,

    To bring them to God’s ears,

    Is madness and idolatry,

    For which the earth will cry on Judgment day.

    Sleeping Hermaphrodite

    Anonymous, Roman copy of a Greek original from the 2nd century B.C.E. (?) (mattress carved in 1619 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini). Marble, 169 x 89 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris

    Leda and the Swan

    Anonymous, 3rd

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