Metaphor of Diseases in Contemporary European Paintings

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10.2991/icadce-16.2016.14How to use a DOI?

Keywords

diseases; metaphor; politics; modernity

Abstract

Diseases, which are the dark side of life, are all the time taken as the metaphors of death, human weakness and fragility per se. Each citizen has double identities as health and disease. In addition, how these diseases are metaphorized step by step transferring to a standard of morals and political attitude from nothing but a part of body The contemporary European painters constantly present the diseased human bodies through various art languages, obviously, the diseased bodies per se are not what they actually concern, but the usage of taking diseases as a rhetorical device or metaphor is. In virtue of paints, they reveal the dissimilation to human made by diseases in contemporary society, confront and deep touch the source of diseases, which express the artists' concerns and reflections on realistic situation of human society.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TI  - Metaphor of Diseases in Contemporary European Paintings
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education
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SP  - 67
EP  - 73
SN  - 2352-5398
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