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The body in three dimensions / Tom Flynn.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Perspectives (Harry N. Abrams, Inc.)Publisher: New York City : Harry N. Abrams, Inc., [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 176 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0810927160
  • 9780810927162
Other title:
  • Body in 3 dimensions
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 731.82
LOC classification:
  • NB1930. F59 1998
Contents:
Introduction: Waxworks, Dolls, and Doppelgangers -- 1. Idols, Myths, and Magic: The Body in Antiquity -- The Mother Goddess -- Simplicity and Silence: Cycladic Sculpture -- Xoana: Aniconic Idols -- Kalos thanatos: The Beautiful Death -- Artemis, "Lady of the Beasts" -- Sophrosyne and Self-knowledge -- Perfection Through Numbers -- "An inescapable delight for the vision" -- 2. The Body Re-born: The Middle Ages -- The Body Emerges -- Mary the Mediator -- Opening the Body -- The Body in Perspective -- Donatello: Ancient into Modern -- 3. The Apotheosis of the Body: Mannerism and Baroque -- Surface and Structure: The Body Flayed -- Laocoon: The Body Unearthed -- Cellini: Eight Views of the Body -- The Unfolding Narrative -- Polychromy: The Painter's Hand -- Mystical Visions: The Body in Ecstasy -- 4. The Sublime Body: The Eighteenth Century -- Falconet: The Triumph of the Moderns -- Noble Simplicity: Antiquity Revived -- Collecting the Past -- Illumination and Enlightenment -- Quatremere de Quincy: Polychromy Reassessed -- Neo-classicism in the United States -- An Unsuitable Job for a Woman -- Monuments and Men: The Body in Public -- 5. The Body in Colour: The Nineteenth Century -- "The Warmth of Life": Colour and Controversy -- Waxworks and Auto-icons -- Minerva in France -- The Legacy of Michelangelo -- The Primitive and the Prurient -- The New Sculpture: An English Renaissance -- Crafting the Body: Gilbert, Gerome, Klinger -- Rodin: The Unity of Fragments -- 6. Abjection and Assemblage: The Body in the Twentieth Century -- Expanding Horizons -- Welcome to the Machine -- Space as a Sculptural Element -- Dream, Reality: Surreality -- Surface and Structure -- Truth in Refuse: The Body Assembled -- Disturbing Identity: The Abject and the Uncanny -- Body and Self -- Conclusion -- Timeline -- Bibliography -- Picture Credits -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-171) and index.

Introduction: Waxworks, Dolls, and Doppelgangers -- 1. Idols, Myths, and Magic: The Body in Antiquity -- The Mother Goddess -- Simplicity and Silence: Cycladic Sculpture -- Xoana: Aniconic Idols -- Kalos thanatos: The Beautiful Death -- Artemis, "Lady of the Beasts" -- Sophrosyne and Self-knowledge -- Perfection Through Numbers -- "An inescapable delight for the vision" -- 2. The Body Re-born: The Middle Ages -- The Body Emerges -- Mary the Mediator -- Opening the Body -- The Body in Perspective -- Donatello: Ancient into Modern -- 3. The Apotheosis of the Body: Mannerism and Baroque -- Surface and Structure: The Body Flayed -- Laocoon: The Body Unearthed -- Cellini: Eight Views of the Body -- The Unfolding Narrative -- Polychromy: The Painter's Hand -- Mystical Visions: The Body in Ecstasy -- 4. The Sublime Body: The Eighteenth Century -- Falconet: The Triumph of the Moderns -- Noble Simplicity: Antiquity Revived -- Collecting the Past -- Illumination and Enlightenment -- Quatremere de Quincy: Polychromy Reassessed -- Neo-classicism in the United States -- An Unsuitable Job for a Woman -- Monuments and Men: The Body in Public -- 5. The Body in Colour: The Nineteenth Century -- "The Warmth of Life": Colour and Controversy -- Waxworks and Auto-icons -- Minerva in France -- The Legacy of Michelangelo -- The Primitive and the Prurient -- The New Sculpture: An English Renaissance -- Crafting the Body: Gilbert, Gerome, Klinger -- Rodin: The Unity of Fragments -- 6. Abjection and Assemblage: The Body in the Twentieth Century -- Expanding Horizons -- Welcome to the Machine -- Space as a Sculptural Element -- Dream, Reality: Surreality -- Surface and Structure -- Truth in Refuse: The Body Assembled -- Disturbing Identity: The Abject and the Uncanny -- Body and Self -- Conclusion -- Timeline -- Bibliography -- Picture Credits -- Index.

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