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But, in fact, it wasn't just the nakedness -
實(shí)際也不僅僅是因?yàn)槁懵?/div>
this Aphrodite broke the mould in a decidedly erotic way.
而是阿佛洛狄忒破格地具有誘惑性的姿態(tài)
Just look at her hands.
看看她的雙手吧
Are they modestly trying to cover herself up?
她的手是想小心地遮蔽身體嗎
Are they pointing us in the direction
還是特意指向了
of what we want to see most?
我們最想看的部位呢
Or are they simply a tease?
或者就是一次直白的挑逗呢
Whatever the answer,
無(wú)論答案是什么
Praxiteles has established that edgy relationship
普拉克西特列斯的確在
between a statue of a woman
一尊女性雕像
and an assumed male viewer
和一位假想的男性觀眾間
that has never been lost
建立了一種緊張的關(guān)系
from the history of European art.
而這種關(guān)系一直都存在于歐洲藝術(shù)史中
But that difficult boundary between statue and flesh
但希臘人本身卻深諳
was understood by the Greeks themselves.
雕像和鮮活肉體之間很難界定的界線
They told a tale that shows how they, too,
流傳的故事同樣表明
knew of the perils they faced in creating what they saw
他們自己也深知?jiǎng)?chuàng)作寫實(shí)人體雕塑
as realistic images of the human body.
所面臨的危險(xiǎn)
One night, it was said,
據(jù)說(shuō)有一天夜里
a young man became so aroused by this statue,
一位青年男子深深地被這尊雕像吸引住了
he forced himself upon it, leaving a stain of lust on her thigh.
霸王硬上弓 在她的大腿上留下情欲的污漬
He later threw himself over a cliff to his death, in shame.
之后出于羞愧 跳崖而亡
That story of the stain not only shows
關(guān)于污漬的故事不僅表現(xiàn)了
how a female statue can drive a man mad,
一尊女性雕像是如何讓一位男性瘋狂的
but also how art can act as an alibi
也揭示了藝術(shù)是如何成為
for what was - let's face it - rape.
"強(qiáng)暴"的托詞的
Don't forget - Aphrodite never consented.
別忘了 阿佛洛狄忒可從沒(méi)同意過(guò)
But however troubling the Greek Revolution was in its own time,
不過(guò)不管當(dāng)時(shí)那場(chǎng)希臘革命有多紛繁復(fù)雜
there's a deeper legacy that reaches the modern age.
它確實(shí)給后世造成了深刻的影響
