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Impossible Nudity

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The distinguished French sinologist François Jullien (b. 1951) in his book "Impossible Nudity" (2000) points to a fundamental, yet subtle, difference between Western and Eastern worldviews: while in European art, from ancient statues to contemporary photography, the naked body is presented as a phenomenon integral and rooted in culture, in China, nudity as a philosophical and aesthetic category is impossible. Its emergence presupposes "morphological" thinking, a desire to capture form as the embodiment of an idea—that is, the very essence of metaphysics born in Greece. In Chinese culture, by contrast, form is understood as something processual, subject to change, and therefore does not require a fixed gaze on the "naked," and therefore living, body. By examining works of Chinese graphics and painting and reflecting on the impossibility of nudity, Julien offers a new perspective on our understanding of truth, being and sensory experience as such.
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