La face cachée des fesses
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La face cachée des fesses is a documentary film by Caroline Pochon and Allan Rothschild, France, 2010, 56' (DVD)
The book that accompanies the documentary makes an interesting observation on the etymology of the French words fesse (buttocks) and sein (breast). Both are derived from Latin, the first comes from fissura and the second from sinus. Both refer to a hole, a cavity, a lack. Thus they are defined by their negative space, rather than by their thing-in-itself.
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Some noteworthy images
- Gouvernement Anglais (1794) by Jacques- Louis David
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