His writings depict violence, criminality and blasphemy against the Catholic Church. Marquis de Sade, a French aristocrat, philosopher and writer of explicit sexual works, was born in Paris in 1740. Everybody knows him, yet nobody knows him.Algernon Charles Swinburne, Sigmund Freud, Jean Genet, Jesús Franco, Friedrich Nietzsche (possibly), Antonin Artaud, Dennis Cooper, Georges Bataille, Charles Baudelaire, Simone de Beauvoir, Angela Carter, Samuel Beckett, Jim Morrison, Lydia Lunch, Yukio Mishima, Guillaume Apollinaire, Michel Foucault, Pierre Klossowski, Camille Paglia, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pete Doherty, Surrealism, Guy Debord, John Waters, Jacques Lacan, Susan Sontag, possibly Max Stirner “But Sade himself remains a figure of fantasy. “Everyone has an idea of sadism,” she says, referring to the term coined by the psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing in 1888. But the bicentennial also provides the perfect opportunity to peel away the myths that surround Sade, des Cars says. She is conscious that the exhibition will push the boundaries for a fine arts institution, with warnings for parents about its shocking graphic content. “Once you start looking, you see Sade’s presence throughout popular culture.” “Alfred Hitchcock was also influenced,” des Cars adds. In cinema, Sade inspired a string of works, including Dali and Luis Buñuel’s classic L’Âge d’Or and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, which transfers The 120 Days of Sodom to the grim setting of Italy in the early 1940s. “His aim was to destroy every illusion surrounding human sexuality, be it historical, moral or religious, which inspired artists to look at the body in a new way.” In visual art, she cites Delacroix, Watteau, Degas, Ingres and Picasso (“Look at the way Picasso plays with the body, inside and out, showing it dominated by the gaze of the viewer”). “Sade’s influence has been enormous in every sphere of Modernist art,” said Laurence des Cars, one of the curators of the exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay. Even in the age of Fifty Shades of Grey, the 18th-century libertine is as shocking as ever
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