KINE 2400 Chapter 2: Reimaging Athletic Nudity article
26 Sep 2015
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Reimaging athletic nudity commercial gain: bodies constantly politicized by contextually specific symbolic, economic and social struggles and struggles come new meanings, new identities, new readings and new experiences, examinations and portrayals of sport and athletes in which nudity, nakedness or specifically the fresh primary focus, turn to appreciation centered on the naturality of the performing body and related artistic aesthetics, raw, innate, evocative qualities or sensuous and communicative presence that reside within corporeal entities and physical performances, western cultural and social values and meanings of nudity have shifted from naturalness. Contextualizing nudity and the body beautiful: naturalness of nudity becomes unnatural through processes of socialization and education in which specific cultural, social, moral and ethical values aare ascribed to the naked body and its existence, cultural religious athletic festivities occurred throughout ancient greece revered and honoured the sanctity of the nude form, greece naked body was adored, celebrated and revered divine to egyptians and.
