ABSTRACT

Special attention is given to the shoots and branches, to all that prolongs the body and links it to other bodies or to the world outside. The new bodily canon, in all its historic variations and different genres, presents an entirely finished, completed, strictly limited body, which is shown from the outside as something individual. In the new canon, such parts of the body as the genital organs, the buttocks, belly, nose and mouth cease to play the leading role. The belly, nose, and mouth, are of course retained in the image and cannot be hidden, but in an individual, completed body they either fulfill purely expressive functions or the functions of characterization and individualization. The events of the grotesque sphere are always developed on the boundary dividing body from the other and, as it were, at their points of intersection.