Obesity  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

True portrait of Monsieur Ubu (1896) is a woodcut frontispiece for Ubu Roi. It represents Ubu, a fictional character from Jarry's eponymous play.

Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais, illustrated by Gustave Doré in 1873, a caricature of an obese man

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Obesity is a condition in which the natural energy reserve, stored in the fatty tissue of humans and other mammals, is increased to a point where it is associated with certain health conditions or increased mortality.

Overweight in fiction

• In Rubens's time, overweight women were just a passing fashion [see here], just as extremely skinny women are a passing fashion in the early 20th century and today.

• The overweight, doughnut-eating cop who believes skateboarding is a crime

• Last Tango in Paris (1972) A grieving widower, middle-age and overweight American exile Paul (Marlon Brando) engages in a sadomasochistic relationship with ...

• The work of Fernando Botero
• The work of Jenny Saville

• The work of Carlos Reygadas, and especially Battle in Heaven.

See

• couch potato