The Body imaged : the human form and visual culture since the Renaissance /
The twelve essays in this book employ a wide range of visual material from varying periods in history to explore different attitudes to and representations of the human body. Each essay serves to analyse how visual representations of the body work metaphorically and systematically to define and rein...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1993.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Acquisition Notes: | Gift of Carol Soltis, 2018 |
| Series: | Internet Archive Lending Library
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The body of the artist. Body languages : Kahlo and medical imagery / David Lomas ; The ambivalence of male masquerade : Duchamp as Rrose Sélavy / Amelia G. Jones ; The forbidden gaze : women artists and the male nude in late nineteenth-century France / Tamar Garb ; Out of the body : Mark Rothko's paintings / James E.B. Breslin
- Part II. Bodies of masculinity. Muscles, morals, mind : the male body in Thomas Eakins' Salutat / Michael Hatt ; Body and body politic in Edvard Munch's Bathing men / Patricia G. Berman
- Part III. Bodies of femininity. The fine art of gentling : horses, women and Rosa Bonheur in Victorian England / Whitney Chadwick ; Blood and milk : painting and the state in late nineteenth-century Italy / Kate Flint
- Part IV. The body as language. Movement and gender in sixteenth-century Italian painting / Sharon Fermor ; The in visibility of Hadji-Ishmael : Maxime Du Camp's 1850 photographs of Egypt / Julia Ballerini ; The hat, the hoax, the body / Briony Fer ; The case of the dirty beau : symmetry, disorder and the politics of masculinity / Marcia Pointon.