Bodyscape : art, modernity and the ideal figure

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Bodyscape : art, modernity and the ideal figure

Nicholas Mirzoeff

(Visual cultures / series editor, Anthea Callen)

Routledge, 1995

  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 199-207

Includes index

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Description

This book explores body images in visual culture, from revolutionary France to contemporary New York. It engages with artists' use of different kinds of body images in painting, sculpture, photography and film, and shows the centrality of the body in the work of artists from da Vinci to Manet.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Bodyscapes 2. The Body Politic 3. Like a Virgin? 4. Photography at the Heart of Darkness 5. Painting at the Heart of Whiteness

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