英文摘要 |
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (KMFA) as the last stop of Tate Modern's international exhibition,''Nude: Masterpieces from Tate,''represented the most significant art event of southern Taiwan in 2018. One hundred and twenty-three pieces of artworks in total, the exhibition included oil paintings, photographs, statues and many graphic arts. Backgrounding timeline, ''Tate Nude''foregrounded themes of aesthetics, materials, techniques, art history, body politics, gender consciousness and social movements, so as to elucidate nudity as an Art genre since 18th century. However, the present paper finds this progressive perspective of nudity in Art history problematic. Indeed, it exemplifies the construction of knowledge and the discursive power in museums as institutions. Based on Foucauldian theories concerning discourse and history, the present paper analyzes the spatial and the lingual narratives of the exhibition in order to reveal the construction of knowledge and the discourse of power embedded in the publicity of KMFA's ''Tate''and ''nude.'' |