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EnV. Pigulevskiy, L. Mirskaya
The charming: a touch of the flesh and aesthetics of lust
The article deals with the charming as an aesthetic category of culture. The subject of the study is feminine fleshliness in art being an erotic ideal of the Nude as well as some aspiration to express a fleshly life in its sexuality and ecstasy. The canon and aesthetics of lust reveal the concept of the charming in positive meanings and negative connotations. The problem lies in fleshliness and sexual practices being out of any rational analysis. It is metaphorical imaginary thinking to be able expressing a human’s sensual life. As far as in culture the female image represents fleshliness to bode pleasure, it causes a question of some particular expressiveness of eroticism in art. As a variety of the beautiful to be addressed to the body’s sexuality, the charming implies two meanings such as “attractive, fascinating” and “sin, temptation, seduction”. The rational meaning of the charming turns out an erotic ideal of the Nude and “a woman’s charms”. The irrational meaning of sensuality arises as a result of cultural bans and norms. The binary structure of the charming is made up of a combination of the fascinating, admirable and the obscene, disgusting. During the decadence epoch, there appears a distinction between the Nude being so fascinating to bode pleasure, and the Naked characterized by seduction, lust, demonic sensuality. In modern culture the comprehension of sexuality is imposed on as a forum of signs and symbolic exchange which admits a falsification of the gender. The charming is reduced to the stimulation of imagination though it requires some story to be told together with visual experiences. The popular culture intervention into day-to-day routine causes a woman’s trendy luscious body to be put to market as a mere merchandise.
Key words
the charming, seduction, the nude, eroticism, sexuality, aesthetics.
For citation
Pigulevskiy V., Mirskaya L. The charming: a touch of the flesh and aesthetics of lust // South-Russian Musical Anthology. 2023. No. 1. Pp. 22-33.
