IInn PPrraaiissee ooff tthhee BBaacckkssiiddee Page 4: No 7, Biederer Studio, c. 1925 Gelatin silver print, 24 x 18 cm Private collection. Text: Hans-Jürgen Döpp Layout: Baseline Co Ltd. 61A-63A Vo Van Tan Street 4th floor District 3, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Döpp, Hans-Jürgen, 1940- In praise of the backside / text, Hans-Jurgen Döpp. -- 1st ed. p. cm. Includes index. 1. Buttocks in art. 2. Female nude in art. I. Title. N8217.B88D67 2011 704.9'42--dc22 2011002658 © Parkstone Press International, New York, USA © Confidential Concepts, worldwide, USA All rights reserved. No part of this may be reproduced or adapted without the permission of the copyright holder, throughout the world. Unless otherwise specified, copyright on the works reproduced lies with the respective photographers. Despite intensive research, it has not always been possible to establish copyright ownership. Where this is the case, we would appreciate notification. ISBN: 978-1-78042-214-5 2 "Our arses should be signs of peace!" —Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 3 4 List of Artists Anonymous 9, 11, 13, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161 163, 165, 167, 171, 173, 175, 179, 185, 187, 189 191, 193, 195, 201, 203, 211, 223, 229, 241, 245 A. Noyer Editions 199, 215, 221 Agélou, Jean 169, 181, 197 Beardsley, Aubrey 113 Bertin, François 205, 209, 219 Biederer Studio 207, 227, 233, 243 Blake, William 53 Blanchard, Jacques 35 Boucher, François 41, 43 Clésinger, Auguste 61 Corona Editions 217 Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille 57 Correggio (Antonio Allegri) 21 Courbet, Gustave 63, 67, 71, 73 Coypel, Noël-Nicolas 39 Degas, Edgar 77, 81, 89, 93, 95, 97, 107, 111 Delaplanche, Eugène 75 Gauguin, Paul 99, 101, 105 Giambologna (Giovanni Bologna) 23 H. C. W. 177 Hayez, Francesco 55 Henner, Jean-Jacques 69, 115 Hopper, Edward 149 5 6 Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique 47, 51, 65 Jordaens, Jacob 29 Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig 129 Klimt, Gustav 125, 127, 143, 145 Laszlo, Boris 147 Liss, Johann 33 Mallet, Jean-Baptiste 49 Mandel, J. 221 Manufacture nationale de Sèvres 123 Millet, Jean-François 59 Monsieur X 231 Oltramare, Henri 183 Ostra Editions 225, 227, 233, 243 Palma Giovane 25 Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) 15, 19 Regnault, Jean-Baptiste 45 Renoir, Pierre-Auguste 79 Richard,Yva 235, 237, 239, 247 Rodin, Auguste 87, 91, 109, 119, 135, 139 Rops, Félicien 83, 103 Rousseau, Henri 133 Rubens, Peter Paul 27, 31 S. O. L. Editions 213 Schiele, Egon 137, 141 Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) 17 Toulouse-Lautrec (de), Henri 85, 117 Vallotton, Félix 121, 131 Velázquez, Diego 37 7 LLoovvee’’ss BBooddyy As we fragment the body, we make its parts the subject of a fetish. Each individual part can become a focus of erotic passion, an object of fetishist adoration. On the other hand, the body as a whole is still the sum of its parts. The Three Graces Anonymous,Roman copy of a Greek original created during the 2nd century B.C.E.(restored in 1609) Marble,119 x 85 cm Musée du Louvre,Paris 8 9 The division of the body that we carry out here brings to mind the worship of relics. Relic worship began in the Middle Ages with the adoration of the bones of martyrs and was based on the belief that the body parts of saints possessed a special power. In this respect, each fetishist, however enlightened he pretends to be, pays homage to relic worship. Sleeping Hermaphrodite Anonymous,Roman copy of a Greek original from the 2nd century B.C.E.(?) (mattress carved in 1619 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini) Marble,169 x 89 cm Musée du Louvre,Paris 10