Bauhaus Bodies, Modern Automatas and Other Performing Images
The Triadic Ballet (Oskar Schlemmer, 1922) and its Bauhaus theatrical gestures, fine examples of the new modern society, is a starting point to think of body image presentations along time, in increasingly complex embodied affections. A very diverse feminine body also emerges in representations of other modern artists (as playing a character) and of oneself (as the creator), in more subjective forms of visual composition. Two approaches to body potential of imaging creation and gesture possibilities are presented in this chapter, as an extension of how embodied realities may reconfigure performed bodies along time. Since the 19th century, our body is manipulated and recreated through various media languages, experiencing an existence influenced by society, science, technology and culture. A Schlemmer‘s contemporary German artist, surrealist sculptor and photographer Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) presents Olympia, from a body image related to other modern characters, embodied in a manipulated doll with a spherical body in photography series resembling dead bodies from World War or denouncing a scientific desire to control and recreate living bodies as pleased, since widely documented in medical protocols since the end of XIX century.
