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POSTMODERN MODIFICATIONS OF THE HUMAN BODYТ‘S IMAGING IN THE SLOVAK CULTURAL TRADITION
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In the center of our attention is the Slovak cultural tradition in the period of post-modernism, focused on some selected issues associated with the imaging of the human body in the visual arts. The Slovak culture in the postmodern context takes the elements characteristic for the whole postmodernism : unifying world views fall apart and individual, group or regional perspectives are preferred; universalism (the ideas on universal human values and theories) is being desintegrated; logocentrism as well as the belief in the world being rationally organized are weakening; we see the demythologising process in progress; imitator ship is developing; cultural artifacts are losing their aura of uniqueness and originality; cultures are intermingling, transculturality is arising. We start from several theses: the human body is not exclusively the object of study by biologists and physiologists; it is dependent on the society in which it exists, it is formed by, and so, it is sensitive to changes running within it; similarly to ideas and emotions the human body faces social pressures and effects and becomes a social product; in all eras the human body has been the part of culture, whereas, every culture shaped it differently. In the postmodern culture the body is mainly a consumer of delights, it consumes and digests experiences, resembles the instrument of pleasure of all its types – from sexual to gastronomical, visual, acoustic, whereby it uses its natural ability to react to impulses. In the article we present some of the postmodern modifications of the human body´s imaging in the context of gender, power and sexually-oriented relations, whereby we point out that at the contemporary postmodern, postmetaphysical as well as postreligious time, we are trying to return dignity to common everyday experience. We focus on emphasizing profane elements in our life, what, however doesn´t exclude the opposite trend of desacralisation being alternated by resacralisation, which is neither oriented on science or religion, but on media, arts, meditation etc. In the article we also point at specifics of the processes within the Slovak culture.
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