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2 The Pregnant Nude and Photographic Representation
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Published:October 2015
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Abstract
This chapter focuses on the pregnant nude in Chinese art. First, it examines how Yu Hong's Witness to Growth and Xing Danwen's Born with the Revolution use the pregnant body as a witness to social-political history. By locating the pregnant body side-by-side with official media images, Yu Hong's autobiographical unfolding generates an intertextual frame wherein the pregnant nude becomes an embodiment of political history. Xing Danwen's photographic representation frames the pregnant nude and portraits of Mao in a private space to connect the revolutionary past t contemporary interpretation. The chapter then investigates how Feng Jiali's Pregnancy Is Art turns the pregnant body (as well as pregnancy itself) into a gendered subject and art form. With the “monstrous body” inviting and challenging the gaze of the spectator, the pregnant subject subverts the notion of the nude body as “impossible” in art history. Seen together, these works advance the argument that the personal is political as the pregnant nude seizes a legitimate position in the rewriting of historiography and the creation of women's art.
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