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Pictures of the body : pain and metamorphosis / James Elkins.

By:

Elkins, James, 1955- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999Description: xviii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0804730237
9780804730235
0804730245
9780804730242

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

704.942 21

LOC classification:

N7625.5 .E45 1999

Online resources:

Contributor biographical information

Contents:

Pain -- Membranes -- Psychomachia -- Cut Flesh -- Metamorphosis -- By Looking Alone -- Analogic Seeing -- Dry Schemata.

Summary: "In a wide-ranging argument moving from ancient Middle Eastern representations to Balthus, from Syriac prayer books to John Carpenter's film The Thing, this book explores the ways the body has been represented through time. It attempts to form a single coherent account of the possible forms of representation of the body, through the concepts of pain and metamorphosis. The author shows how these two have animated and ordered the vast range of images that have been produced in Western representation, and he argues that they continue to be generative concepts even amid the welter of today's new forms. This work brings together concerns, images, and concepts from a wide range of perspectives: art history and criticism, the history and philosophy of medicine, the history of race, phenomenological and post phenomenological thought, studies of feminism and pornography, and the new interest in visual studies."--Publisher description.

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Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	704.942 ELK (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A195591B

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-337) and index.

Pain -- Membranes -- Psychomachia -- Cut Flesh -- Metamorphosis -- By Looking Alone -- Analogic Seeing -- Dry Schemata.

"In a wide-ranging argument moving from ancient Middle Eastern representations to Balthus, from Syriac prayer books to John Carpenter's film The Thing, this book explores the ways the body has been represented through time. It attempts to form a single coherent account of the possible forms of representation of the body, through the concepts of pain and metamorphosis. The author shows how these two have animated and ordered the vast range of images that have been produced in Western representation, and he argues that they continue to be generative concepts even amid the welter of today's new forms. This work brings together concerns, images, and concepts from a wide range of perspectives: art history and criticism, the history and philosophy of medicine, the history of race, phenomenological and post phenomenological thought, studies of feminism and pornography, and the new interest in visual studies."--Publisher description.

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