Bodyscape Art, Modernity and the Ideal Figure |
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| Author:
| Mirzoeff, Nicholas |
| ISBN: | 978-0-415-09800-7 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1995 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $130.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.