Yukio Mishima e Nathalie Gassel: conexões entre fisiculturismo e arte

Abstract

This dissertation is based on the investigation of the books “Sun and Steel” (1968) by the Japanese artist Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) and “The construction of a pornographic body” (2005) by the Belgian artist Nathalie Gassel (1964). Both artists practiced bodybuilding as an artistic process in order to build an organic work of art. Through literature, they reconfigure their practice and produce a particular sense of creation for it. In dialogue with those books, concepts and perspectives from the arts, literature, social sciences and philosophy, in order to understand how the work of these artists, based on bodybuilding, can discuss the body culture approaches and its use as art.