The Bodily Images of Transgessing the Social System: Hou Jun Ming s Sou Shen Ji and Chen Jie-Ren s Hun Po Bao Luan
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Abstract After the government declared that the martial law had ended, Taiwanese art became to get rid of the burden of politics and tradion and start to wear a gorgeous face gradually. New visual aesthetics which break tradional/academic representations of human bodies have gradually come into extistence.this thesis pays attention to the change, and fouses on two convulsive series of works: Hou Jun-Ming s Sou Shen Ji and Chen Jie-Ren s Hun Po Bao Luan. It will deeply discuss the relationship between Taiwanese art and social atmosphere by interpreting the specific bodily images of the two series of works. The main point of writing this thesis is mainly transgression. It attempts to analyze how Sou Shen Ji and Hun Po Bao Luan bear the artists recations, critical thoughts and re-interpretation against the traditional society and national power in social open atmosphere. Furthermore, I think that these two series of works have the Bataillean transgression aesthetics no matter how their forms and contents are heterogeneous. Morever, I also want to indicate these bodily images of these two series of works have grotesque characteristics, and try to analyze politics meanings of these grotesque bodily images. Lastly, I also seek to figure out how these works reflect the artists anxiety and desire by referring to some articles and interviews of artists intertextualily. In conclusion, I will explain the synchronic meanings of these bodily images in Taiwanese art. Key Words: Hou Jun-Ming, Chen Jie-Ren, bodily images, transgression, abjection, grotesque bodies, carnival, ritual, allegory, anxiety, gaze, trauma, masochism 3
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transgression Michel Foucault Julia Kristeva abject Hal Foster 20
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