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The art of the body : antiquity and its legacy /
The art of the human body is arguably the most important and wide-ranging legacy bequeathed to us by Classical antiquity. Not only has it directed the course of western image-making, it has shaped our collective cultural imaginary - as ideal, antitype, and point of departure. This book is the first...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris,
2011.
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| Colección: | Ancients and moderns series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. I Embodying The Classical
- 'Ancients and moderns'
- The thinking behind the body
- Body Fascism
- A passe past?
- The body of the book
- ch. II Figuring What Comes Naturally? Writing The 'Art History' Of The Body
- A 'Greek Revolution'
- The Story of Art and the history of art history
- The burden of the Renaissance
- Seeing double
- ch. III The Ancient 'Female Nude' (And Other Modern Fictions)
- V-ness
- Crying, talking, sleeping, walking
- living dolls
- Looking at Aphrodite
- Aphrodite looks back
- Fatal attraction
- Slapping with slippers
- ch. IV Stripping Down And Undressing Up
- Indecent exposure
- Compromising traditions
- The emperor's new clothes
- Inheriting inherited bodies
- The body in pieces
- ch. V On Gods Made Men Made Images
- Imaging and imagining the gods
- God Incarnate
- Wholly holey holy Lord
- or God of power and might?
- Figuring [out] the empty body
- Icons and idols
- Beyond the body?