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.

List 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

About the author

Nicholas Mirzoeff

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Mirzoeff, Mirzoeff Nicholas
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.1995
• EAN: 9780415098014
• ISBN: 978-0-415-09801-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Weight: 360 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, Theory of art, ART / Subjects & Themes / Human Figure, ART / Criticism & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Human figures depicted in art, Human figures depicted in the arts