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Representation and the Body of Power in French Academic Painting

Representation and the Body of Power in French Academic Painting Representation and the Body of Power in French Academic Painting Amy M. Schmitter Reputation of power, is Power . . . Hobbes, Leviathan, Bk. I, ch. x Introduction It seems natural, even obvious, to distinguish between representations and what they are representations of. A picture of a dog is no more a dog than the word “dog” is a furry, tail-wagging mammal. Nor are properties belonging to the object of a representation necessarily properties of the representation: a pic- ture of a big dog need not be big, a picture of a dog that resembles Fido need not resemble Fido; even a picture of brown Fido need not be brown. And no number of pictures of Fido will sympathetically induce changes in Fido or any other dog. But however clear-cut this distinction may be when what is in question are pic- torial references to ordinary, middle-sized material particulars such as dogs, it is much less clear in other cases. It is no violation of common-sense to consider “representations” of such things as gender norms or national identities or selves as non-neutral in the face of what they represent. The representations of gender norms, for example, can extend and enforce http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the History of Ideas University of Pennsylvania Press

Representation and the Body of Power in French Academic Painting

Journal of the History of Ideas , Volume 63 (3) – Jul 1, 2002

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Representation and the Body of Power in French Academic Painting Amy M. Schmitter Reputation of power, is Power . . . Hobbes, Leviathan, Bk. I, ch. x Introduction It seems natural, even obvious, to distinguish between representations and what they are representations of. A picture of a dog is no more a dog than the word “dog” is a furry, tail-wagging mammal. Nor are properties belonging to the object of a representation necessarily properties of the representation: a pic- ture of a big dog need not be big, a picture of a dog that resembles Fido need not resemble Fido; even a picture of brown Fido need not be brown. And no number of pictures of Fido will sympathetically induce changes in Fido or any other dog. But however clear-cut this distinction may be when what is in question are pic- torial references to ordinary, middle-sized material particulars such as dogs, it is much less clear in other cases. It is no violation of common-sense to consider “representations” of such things as gender norms or national identities or selves as non-neutral in the face of what they represent. The representations of gender norms, for example, can extend and enforce

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Published: Jul 1, 2002

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