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ID: 197
Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
Title: Lingchi B, 5 cutting left leg
DocumentNature: Photograph
Glass: Positive
Support: Glass
Mono: Stereoscopic
Related_Biography: unknown
Repository: Olivier Cadiot
Color: Black and white
Caption: none
Topic: Lingchi 凌遲
Description: The executioner's blade enters into the convict's left knee, whose face seems "extatic" and his hair "risen": another moment made famous by G. Bataille; this shot also inspired the Spanish Painter Gimenez Solana for his "Supplicio cino".
Place_Street: Caishikou
Keyword: lingchi bataille dumas caishikou
Bibliography
1:Name:
BATAILLE, Georges Les larmes d'Eros
Evénement relié (1)
1 Title: Execution by lingchi of pseudo-Fu-zhu-li
Date of event: Unknown
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.
Related VisualSet (1)
1 Title: Set Cadiot
DocumentNature: Photograph
Geolocation
Asia --> China --> Hebei (Zhili) --> Beijing
Derniére modification le : 2005-11-30 |
