Bodyscape : art, modernity, and the ideal figure / Nicholas Mirzoeff.
Material type: TextSeries: Visual culturesPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995Description: ix, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415098009
- 9780415098007
- 0415098017
- 9780415098014
- 704.942 20
- N6494.P66 M57 1995
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704.942 HOL Seeing through clothes / | 704.942 IDE Ideal and reality : the image of the body in 20th-century art from Bonnard to Warhol : works on paper / | 704.942 KER Eyes of love : the gaze in English and French culture, 1840-1900 / | 704.942 MIR Bodyscape : art, modernity, and the ideal figure / | 704.942 NOC The body in pieces : the fragment as a metaphor of modernity / | 704.942 ORE The body in contemporary art / | 704.942 PAI Paint made flesh / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-207) and index.
List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Bodyscapes -- Body fragments versus universal forms -- Blindness and insight -- The canon of blindness -- 2. The Body Politic -- The king's two bodies -- The stone king: representing Louis XIV -- Engendering the Classical -- The king also dies -- Republican body politics -- Defying the body politic -- After the body politic? -- In memoriam -- 3. Like a Virgin? -- Post-Revolutionary depression -- Restoring art -- From the Madonna to the harem -- But is it Art? -- Coda: Madonnas on screen -- 4. Photography at the Heart of Darkness -- Envisaging the Congo -- Anthropology, eugenics and photography -- The politics of cultural difference -- 5. Painting at the Heart of Whiteness -- Graffiti, hip-hop and the art world -- Race and modern art -- Diaspora, wandering and representation -- Epilogue: From Terminator to Witness -- Bibliography -- Index.
"Western art has long sought to visualize the perfect body. Whether composed from fragments or derived from a single model, this ideal, straight, white body is now in crisis. But what will take its place? In Bodyscape, Nicholas Mirzoeff traces the roots of our current obsession with body images from revolutionary France to contemporary New York. He argues that the representation of the body has always shaped, and been shaped by, crises of political and cultural identity. Mirzoeff's illuminating study engages with artists' work in painting, sculpture, photography and film, showing the centrality of the body in the work of artists ranging from Leonardo, Manet and Poussin, to photographers Julia Margaret Cameron and Paul Strand, to Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith and Nancy Spero. _"--Publisher description.
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