A Secret History of the Pissing Figure in Art

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A Secret History of the Pissing Figure in Art
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The book “Pissing Figures, 1280–2014” traces a steady stream of urine through centuries of canvases, fountains, and frescoes.

who haunt our canvases, fountains, and frescoes. The book, in a rangy, fluent translation from Jeff Nagy, is a record of what Lebensztejn calls our “diuretic fantasies”—of the lore and lust surrounding urine, sacred and profane.Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Courtesy David Zwirner Books. He appeared first in the margins of illuminated manuscripts, peeing discreetly as if in fear of detection: the gentle plash, the flaxen strands as wispy as a maiden’s hair.

In other drawings and paintings of the era, common people, dressed up or down, began to piss from brothels, gardens, and saddles, into the air and onto their own shadows. It was a great time to piss in art. Women began to do so in record numbers.

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