Search results for subject:(Human figure in art)

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Bodyscape: art, modernity and the ideal figure

By Mirzoeff, Nicholas

Paperback. English.

Published London: Routledge, 1995

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...

The body in sculpture

By Flynn, Tom

Paperback. English.

Published London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998

The Body in Sculpture is a highly original, deft and compelling account of the history of sculpted representations of the human body, which acknowledges...

Spectacular bodies: the art and science of the human body from Leonardo to now

By Kemp, Martin

Paperback. English.

Published London: Hayward Gallery, c2000

Illustrating the point at which medicine and art collide, this exhibition brings together more than 300 treasures from some 80 medical and art museums...

The body politic: the role of the body and contemporary craft: Fellowship in Craft and Criticism, University of Northumbria, 1998/1999

Paperback. English.

Published London: Crafts Council, c2000

Photography and the body

By Pultz, John

Paperback. English.

Published London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995

The first major paperback original books on art in almost two decades, aimed at the general reader and students and reflecting the most recent developments...

Indeterminate bodies

Hardback. English.

Published Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

This collection looks from a variety of angles at the human body as it resists the determinations of gender, sexuality, socialisation and history

An intimate distance: women, artists and the body

By Betterton, Rosemary

Paperback. English.

Published London: Routledge, 1996

An Intimate Distance considers a wide range of visual images of women in the context of current debates which centre around the body, including reproductive...

Bodies of modernity: figure and flesh in fin-de-siècle France

By Garb, Tamar

Paperback. English.

Published London: Thames & Hudson, c1998

In late 19th-century France, women and men were seen as the polar opposites of nature and emotion, and reason. This book documents how these notions influenced...