A beleza no corpo do mito (in) variações do clássico na arte sequencial

Abstract

The beauty according to Roger Scruton is a fundamental value to the human condition. When the modern art emerges, the discussions around this value became, gradually, minor issues for the visual arts. The body, however, does not cease to be an object of idealization, so that many representations persist in carrying elements of classic beauty. We see in images of contempo-rary heroic a kind of fender for that value, in a process that we call modernization or reinven-tion of the classic. This work aims to foment the discussion about beauty as an aesthetic cate-gory, with emphasis on the heroic body of a diverse nature approach. First, we established the classic visual on which our study is all about. Then we put forward a conceptual perspective of philosophical and scientific character. Finally, with those concepts in mind, we comment on the aesthetics of the characters that we consider most iconic within the genre of superhe-roes: Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.