What makes the boxer so impressive
让这名拳击手如此令人印象深刻的
isn't just the extraordinary technique.
不仅仅是这精湛的技艺
It's the point the piece is making.
而是这件作品的制作初衷
The artist has used the descriptive powers
艺术家运用这种现实主义的
of this version of realism
描绘事实的力量
to launch a devastating attack on the body culture
向古希腊人所痴迷的身体文化
that obsessed the Ancient Greeks.
发出了致命一击
He introduces a very different type of character
他塑造的人物与早先那些年轻的
from those early, youthful, well-toned athletes.
线条优美结实的运动员相去甚远

Not just in the wounds and the scars,
不仅仅有累累的伤痕
but in the emotional collapse.
还有情感的崩塌
In a world in which there was something of a cult
当时的社会充斥着对年轻运动实力的
of youthful athletic prowess,
狂热崇拜
all those telling realistic details add up to a reminder
所有生动而逼真的细节都在提醒人们
that the body beautiful
美丽的躯体
was not so very far from the body brutalised.
与饱受残害的身体 仅一线之隔
This work of art is prodding
这件作品直击
at the awkward underbelly of Greek culture.
希腊文化的软肋
It's the incisive brilliance of sculptures like The Boxer
正是像拳击手这种鞭辟入里的雕塑
that gives the impression that the Greek Revolution
让我们看到 这场希腊革命
was an unalloyed triumph of artistic achievement.
在艺术成就上取得了纯粹的胜利
But there is another way of looking at the Greek Revolution,
但是还能从另一个角度看待希腊革命
and at its losses as well as its gains.
其有所得 则必有所失
Remember Phrasikleia, who died unmarried?
还记得佛雷斯科莱这位未婚而亡的少女吗
She was made long before that revolutionary change.
她的诞生早在这场变革之前
What I love is her elegance and simplicity.
我喜欢的 正是她的优雅简洁
The way she reaches out,
她伸出手
offering a gift, or meeting us eye-to-eye.
献出礼物 与我们四目相对
That directness is exactly
这种直率正是
what gets lost in the Greek Revolution.
希腊革命所丢失掉的
Later sculptures may be more supple than Phrasikleia,
后世的雕像比起佛雷斯科莱或许更加精细
they may seem to move more adventurously,
动作更加大胆
but they don't engage us in the same way.
但带给我们的感受却判若两然