Nature, idéal et caricature. La perception des types physiques chez les premiers anthropologues

Guédron, Martial

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“…9 The connection between aesthetics and science that Painter denounced was also observed by Martial Guédron, who proposed that the raciological taxonomies of physical anthropology were based on aesthetic prejudices drawn from the histoire de l'art archéologisante that Winckelmann represented. 10 Painter, Mirzoeff, and Guédron's critiques of the alleged racist implications of neoclassical aesthetics has a precursor in Eliza Marian Butler's influential The Tyranny of Greece over Germany (1935). Butler saw Winckelmann as the key figure in a philhellenic movement that exposed German society to the influence of Ancient Greek literature and art in a way that inspired Nazi ideology's dream of the Übermensch.…”

Section: Decolonising the Aesthetic Canon?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Winckelmann’s Apollo and the Physiognomy of Race

Hodne¹

2020

NJA

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The taste for classical art that induced museums in the West to acquire masterpieces from ancient Greece and Rome for their collections was stimulated largely by the writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann. In the past decade, a number of articles have claimed that Winckelmann’s glorification of marble statues representing the white, male body promotes notions of white supremacy. The present article challenges this view by examining theories prevalent in the eighteenth century (especially climate theory) that affected Winckelmann’s views on race. Through an examination of different types of classicism, the article also seeks to demonstrate that Winckelmann’s aesthetics were opposed to the eclectic use of ancient models typical of the fascist regimes of the twentieth century.

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Section: Decolonising the Aesthetic Canon?mentioning

confidence: 99%