현대 사진예술에 나타난 성적 환상의 재현: 성적 환상의 존재론적 재현과 그 역사적 탐구

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Representation of eroticism is one of the most significant themes in modern photograph art these days, because eroticism as a mental desire of human being includes not only the simple biological sexual appetite as the most fundamental desire out of those constrained inside human being, but also the emotional aspect surrounding sex. Such artistic representation of desire, especially through photograph, makes viewers imagine fantasy-image, namely, certain metaphysical portent or image such as vision, intoxication, horror, bizarrerie, ecstasy, bliss which cannot be easily perceived by human being. However, the distinction between pornography for sexual stimulation and eroticism which leads to sexual fantasy is always obscure in photograph image.Historically, sexual representation was restricted to pornography only for sexual stimulation of viewers, especially photograph of women’s nude at the beginning of invention of photograph. Later, pornographic photograph was developed to pornography industry in the 19th century due to technical development of media. The pornographic photograph in tremendous quantity which was furtively produced at that time was rapidly spread to whole European area due to bold pose and blatant scene which is comparable to that of current pornographic movie.Surrealism authors used to directly reproduce world of sexual fantasy by perverting reality and utilize mannequin or doll which arouses constrained desire. Further, sexual accessories as transference-objet appearing in their work, namely, stocking, garter-belt, women’s underwear, leather, etc., cause erotic fantasy from degenerated sexual appetite such as fetishism, costume perversion, sadomasochism. The fantasy of eroticism appears in 2 large types in modern photograph art. One type representation fantastic and visionary thing which is revealed in unconsciousness of individual based on automatic description method and psychoanalytical mode of surrealism. Representation of sexual fantasy performs the critic function from postmodernism trend in the other type. Since 1980’ when postmodernism emerged, fantasy-image of eroticism which appears as photograph relates to sexual peculiarity in paradoxical, derisive and sarcastic mode, that is, sexual prohibition and taboo that has been constrained for long time like homosexuality, minor sexuality and paraphilias as well as sexual concept perverted and degenerated in modern society these days.

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