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Bodyscape: art, modernity and the ideal figure

Bodyscape: art, modernity and the ideal figure

Mirzoeff, Nicholas

In Bodyscape, the author traces the roots of our 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

Paperback, Book. English.
Published London: Routledge, 1995
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Details

    Statement of responsibility: Nicholas Mirzoeff
    ISBN: 0415098017, 9780415098014
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-207) and index.
    Physical Description: ix, 214p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
    Series: Visual cultures
    Subject: Modernism; Human Body; Painting; ART(X); Photography; Human figure in art.; Human Figure

    Contents

    1. 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