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Despoiled at the Source
Author(s) -
Zorach Rebecca
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
art history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8365
pISSN - 0141-6790
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8365.00151
Subject(s) - exorcism , witch , subjectivity , painting , eroticism , art , materialism , art history , psychoanalytic theory , depiction , literature , philosophy , psychoanalysis , sociology , psychology , epistemology , human sexuality , gender studies , ecology , biology
This article argues for the possibility of combining psychoanalytic and materialist approaches to Rennaissance visual culture. It addresses the eroticism of both figure and facture of Titian’s Diana and Callisto , using Julia Kristeva’s and Judith Butler’s theories of the abject. It compares the positions of figures in the painting with contemporary representations of exorcism and examines the occluded associations of the goddess Diana with witchcraft and the mark of the painter with the mark of the witch. It concludes by arguing for a repressed identification between Titian’s painterly subjectivity and maternal (pro)creation.