Representing the Passions Histories, Bodies, Visions - Histories, Bodies, Visions

Informationen zum Autor Richard Meyer is associate professor of art history at the University of Southern California and the author of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Art. Klappentext Through an interlocking series of texts and images, this work explores how extreme sensations such as wonder, misery, ecstasy and rage have been portrayed at different moments in Western culture. Moving across multiple fields of creative endeavour and intellectual inquiry - from classical artefacts to Chicano art, political protest to operatic performance, Rene Descartes's writings on the soul to the Internet's digitised flesh - it reveals how the passions have elicited, eluded and transformed the act of representation. Zusammenfassung Through a series of texts and images! this work explores how extreme sensations such as wonder! misery! ecstasy and rage have been portrayed at different times in Western culture. It covers multiple fields of creative endeavour and intellectual inquiry - from Descartes's writings to the Internet.

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• Authors: . Meyer, .. Meyer, Richard Meyer
• Assisted by: Richard Meyer (Editor)
• Publisher: Getty, j.paul, museum publ.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2003
• EAN: 9780892366767
• ISBN: 978-0-89236-676-7
• No. of pages: 213
• Series: Issues & Debates (Paperback); Issues & Debates; Issues & Debates; Issues & Debates (Paperback); BIBLIOTHECA PAEDIATRICA REF KARGER; Getty Publications - (Yale); Issues and Debates; Getty Publications – (Yale)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history