Saturday, August 18, 2007
Different Views
A recent visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art prompted me to reflect on the differences between the art of the Greeks and Romans and the art of Africa, particularly as regards statues of nude men. In Greek and Roman sculpture, testicles are dominant; with African sculpture, the penis predominates. Are there two views of man represented by this little quirk?
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I'm sure someone could correct me, but isn't a lot of African art of that type considered objects of fertility? I don't believe the same is true of Greek/Roman art.
Reminds me of the Saturday Night Live bit in which they were selling anatomically correct boy dolls. The white ones were $1.98, the black ones were $15.00
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