The Body imaged : the human form and visual culture since the Renaissance / edited by Kathleen Adler and Marcia Pointon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-208) and index.

Body languages : Kahlo and medical imagery / David Lomas -- The ambivalence of male masquerade : Duchamp as Rrose Sélavy / Amelia G. Jones -- The forbidden gaze : women artists and the male nude in late nineteenth-century France / Tamar Garb -- Out of the body : Mark Rothko's paintings / James E.B. Breslin -- Muscles, morals, mind : the male body in Thomas Eakins' Salutat / Michael Hatt -- Body and body politic in Edvard Munch's Bathing men / Patricia G. Berman -- The fine art of gentling : horses, women and Rosa Bonheur in Victorian England / Whitney Chadwick -- Blood and milk : painting and the state in late nineteenth-century Italy / Kate Flint -- Movement and gender in sixteenth-century Italian painting / Sharon Fermor -- The in visibility of Hadji-Ishmael : Maxime Du Camp's 1850 photographs of Egypt / Julia Ballerini -- The hat, the hoax, the body / Briony Fer -- The case of the dirty beau : symmetry, disorder and the politics of masculinity / Marcia Pointon.

"The twelve essays in this book employ a wide range of visual material from varying periods in history to explore different attitudes to and representations of the human body. Each essay serves to analyse how visual representations of the body work metaphorically and systematically to define and reinforce beliefs and social practices. Many of the essays focus on a single painting, photograph, or other object to examine the wider implications of the image of the body and the body as image. An impressive range of methods and approaches is brought to bear, serving to demonstrate the intellectual vigour and breadth of the subject of the body in art, and the richness of the material with which it can be studied."--Publisher description.

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