Copyright: Turandot

ID: 350
Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
Title: Lingchi in Berthelot.
DocumentNature: Engraving
Repository: Turandot
Page_number: 293
Color: Black and white
Caption: LA FIGURE D'UN SUPPLICIÉ PENDANT LE SUPPLICE
Pour ménager la sensibilité de nos lecteurs, nous ne reproduisons que le visage - étrangement extatique - d'un criminel auquel on est en train de faire subir l'épouvantable supplice des "Cent Morceaux". Déjà, on lui a désarticulé les jambes, coupé les bras, arraché les chairs de la poitrine, et il sourit, dans l'ivresse de l'opium.
Particulars: This pictural interpretation of a photograp is the origin of all the comments that read "ecstatic joy" on the face ot the tormented Chinese, Georges Bataille being the most famous. This is very likely the picture contemplated by Catherine Crachat, in the novel by Pierre-Jean Jouve.
Topic: Portrait
Keyword: lingchi, face

Bibliography
  1:Name: BERTHELOT, Philippe Les supplices en Chine
  2:Name: Jouve, Pierre-Jean Vagadu, in Œuvres complètes, II,

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1  Title: Les supplices en Chine
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2  Title: Reading Lingchi physical damage on the tortured face
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Related Replication (1)

1  Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
    Title: Reading "ectstatic Joy" on a tormented face
    Information: The picture published in Berthelot's article, "Les supplices chinois", settled the common belief that people suffering lingchi paradoxically resented "ecstatic joy". This greatly influenced various authors, the most famous being Bataille. A comparison between the picture and the photograph shows that this interpretation was determined, in fact, by cliched representations of Christian martyrs (here St Sebastian), which were superiimposed on an indecidable expression. The spanish painter Solana, though expressly influenced by Christian iconography (El Greco), shows not "joy" nor "ecstasis" in his Suplicio Chino, however.

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1  Title: Les supplices en Chine
    DocumentNature: Book illustration

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