1st Edition

Bodyscape Art, modernity and the ideal figure

By Nicholas Mirzoeff Copyright 1995
    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book explores body images in visual culture, from revolutionary France to contemporary New York. It engages with artists' use of different kinds of body images in painting, sculpture, photography and film, and shows the centrality of the body in the work of artists from da Vinci to Manet.

    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

    Biography

    Nicholas Mirzoeff