October 21st, 2022 -- by Bacchus
Pussy In Oils
It’s not often that you see actual pussy, complete with a visible vertical slit, in a piece of “fine art” from the early 17th century, but Lazarus van der Borcht managed it (incestuously!) in a painting entitled Lot And His Daughters:
There’s a wisp of veil intervening, but it is so literally transparent as to be utterly metaphorical. I know some of you lazy gits won’t have clicked and zoomed to see the ridiculously high-resolution scan, so here’s the relevant detail:
All in all it’s just about as creepy as the Bible story it illustrates.
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Have you ever read “The Hellenization of Ishtar: Nudity, Fetishism, and the Production of Cultural Differentiation in Ancient Art” by Zainab Bahrani? Through a library / free account at https://www.jstor.org/stable/1360725 or on scihub.
I have not…
If you want to know why European nudes since the 4th century BCE minimize female public hair and the vulva, and how weird that looked to a Near Eastern eye, Bahrani’s article is a place to start.
I would LOVE to read that article, but I tried following the hoops to jump through to get to actually read it and got bogged down. Could not find any actual free access, and there are no school/library connections that are apparently free in NC. oh well.
I can do hoops. Try this hoops-free link, or this backup link at the Internet Archive.
Oh wow thank you! Reading it now!
A bronze sculpture from the Indus River civilization that is a good example of a visible vertical slit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Girl_(sculpture)
Outside of the scope of that article (further away and too early for likely influence on the Hellenic Greeks), but a good example of SOMETHING.
Oddly enough she appeared in my world history textbook when I was in 5th or 6th grade. Things have changed – and not for the better.
Good point that traditional Indian art has the same approach to the female nude as preislamic Middle Eastern art.
A Dr. Alice Evans in Toronto is working on a book “The Great Gender Divergence” which tries to relate the status of men and women to depictions of men and women in preindustrial societies (she has accounts on various social media platforms)