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Niki de Saint Phalle and the Monster Ludens:The Analysis of the Grotesque Body and the Play by Bakhtin’s Popular Culture Theory

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2019, (41), pp.123~152
  • DOI : 10.51786/RCHF.2019.08.41.123
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History
  • Received : July 22, 2019
  • Accepted : July 29, 2019
  • Published : August 31, 2019

Lee Ja Suh 1

1연세대학교

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ABSTRACT

The art world of joyful ‘Nanas’ by Niki de Saint Phalle could be analyzed by the theories of M. Bakhtin’s grotesque body, conversational strategy, and the liberating energy of aimless plays. The grotesque body of pregnant Nanas is the provocation against the classical beauty formed by western European tradition. It is the symbol of universal circle of life. Nanas are on the pedestal made by J. Tinguely, the artist of modernism. The life and joy symbolized by Nanas are revived on the death and ruins suggested by metal pedestals. This is the embrace of otherness based on Bakhtin’s conversational strategy, which does not alienate minority cultures. The ‘Monster Ludens’, that is the playing Nana, rejected to be the objet at the eyes of men. As a self-existent being, the Nana suggested the liberating energy of plays rather than modern labors and studies.

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