Bodyscape: Art, modernity and the ideal figure
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.
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Bodyscape: Art, modernity and the ideal figure
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.
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Bodyscape: Art, modernity and the ideal figure

Bodyscape: Art, modernity and the ideal figure

by Nicholas Mirzoeff
Bodyscape: Art, modernity and the ideal figure

Bodyscape: Art, modernity and the ideal figure

by Nicholas Mirzoeff

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415098014
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/18/1995
Series: Visual Cultures Series
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

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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