Figure 6

“White marble guarded against the threat of flesh, and flesh must be recognized not only as sexual, or sexualized, but as the locus of colour/complexion and a fundamental means of racial identification. White marble held a distinct regulatory function. In psychoanalytical terms, marble was not incidental but critical to the process of representation since it facilitated the fetishization of the body, representing it in a moral guise legible as art.”