ギリシア彫刻にみる身体認識―身体における運動性表現の分析を通して―

抄録

Human being stands on human body. But, in the past, it has not been formed into a subject for philosophic inquiry, with the exception that Plato and Aristotle considered from various angles about human body. Why they could make a fresh development of the philosophical theory on it is that the intellectual background at that time would capacitate for them to philosophize about the human body. A sure method of clarifying such intellectual circumstances is to analyze the representation of the human body in Greek sculpture focusing on human movement, for an understanding about something precedes a representation about that.

According to this hypothesis, in this paper, nine sculptural works from 'Kouros of New York' in the early Archaic style ( c. 600 - 650B. C. ) to 'Apoxyomenos of Lysippos' in the later Classical period ( c. 330 B. C. ) were considered. As tne result, it was verified that how to give expression to human movement in those works were changing step by step from the static style into the dynamic style in a period of about three hundred years. Auguste Rodin said that Greek sculpture stood at a height above the crowd in representation of human body. It will go to show that Greek had already arrived at a mature understanding of human body. It can be say that such intellectual background enables Plato and Aristotle to philosophize about human body.