著者

増田 哲子

出版者

筑波大学人文社会科学研究科現代語・現代文化専攻

雑誌

論叢 (ISSN:18830358)

巻号頁・発行日

no.4, pp.213-250, 2010-03

著者

増田 哲子

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美学 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.62, no.2, pp.73-84, 2011-12-31 (Released:2017-05-22)

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This paper focuses on the image of "eating" in Francisco Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son (1820-23). We aim to grasp the meaning of "eating" in the above and other works of Goya by examining the grotesque body image of Saturn who devours his victim with wide-open mouth and eyes, angular limbs, and disheveled grey hair. As a court painter at the end of the 18^<th> century Spain, Goya was commissioned for works like portraits and tapestry cartoons, where he drew the dignified public body of royalty and nobility, which represented the classical notion of "ideal beauty." However, in a series of works executed after the Peninsular War of 1808-1814, such as the Disasters of War and the Black Paintings, Goya painted distorted and grotesque images of bodies that eat, excrete, grow old, die, and decay. In these images, Goya represented the body as "matter" that was far from the ideal beauty. In this article, we show that the grotesque image of "eating" in Goya's works does not convey the enjoyment and pleasure of life but the insatiable desire to eat, cruelty, and violence in the act of eating, as well as aversion to food.

著者

増田 哲子

出版者

筑波大学文化交流研究会

雑誌

文化交流研究 (ISSN:18807100)

巻号頁・発行日

no.2, pp.1-28, 2007