HISTORIA DEL COLUMPIO
MOSCOSO, JAVIER
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Add to basketLa fascinante historia, alejada del parque infantil, de un artilugio empapado de magia, pasiones, leyendas, ritos, goce, erotismo, diversión o muerte.
El columpio ha acompañado a los seres humanos desde la Grecia clásica o la China preimperial. Sus usos han labrado un terreno fecundo entre el arte y la vida, entre el ritual y el conocimiento, entre la cultura y el juego. Javier Moscoso, uno de los ensayistas españoles más originales y prestigiosos, indaga en el placer de la oscilación y en la universalidad de este instrumento, principalmente femenino, a través de sus usos, significados y metáforas, con ecos y maravillosas coincidencias en épocas y lugares remotos: de la escoba de la bruja al yoga aéreo, de la horca a la esta galante.
Moscoso explora con brillantez la presencia y el papel del columpio en las obras de Watteau, Fragonard o Goya, entre otros muchos; el movimiento pendular como juego de transposición en el que la mujer adopta la posición dominante; o las asombrosas zonas de confluencia con otras tradiciones culturales, en la India, Corea, Tailandia o China. Relacionado desde la Antigüedad con el sexo y con la muerte, empleado por dioses y por locos, instrumento erótico y terapéutico al mismo tiempo, el columpio es un objeto imprescindible, aunque olvidado, en la historia universal de la experiencia humana.
Javier Moscoso (Madrid, 1966) es profesor de investigación en el Instituto de Historia del CSIC. Doctor en Filosofía, ha sido investigador y profesor visitante en las universidades de Harvard y Chicago, en la Universidad de París I Sorbonne y, más recientemente, en el Instituto Max Planck de Historia de la Ciencia, en Berlín. Es autor de varias monografías y publicaciones en revistas especializadas, y ha comisariado exposiciones tanto dentro como fuera de España. La más reciente, SKIN, reseñada en la revista Science, reunió a más de cien mil personas en la galería Wellcome Collection de Londres. Es autor de la Historia cultural del dolor (Taurus, 2011, 2021), publicada originalmente en inglés (Palgrave MacMillan) y galardonada en su edición francesa (Les Prairies Ordinaires) con el premio Libr'à nous, concedido por los libreros. Su último libro, Promesas incumplidas, fue también publicado por Taurus en 2017.
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