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...
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris,
2011
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Ch. I |t Embodying The Classical -- |t 'Ancients and moderns' -- |t The thinking behind the body -- |t Body Fascism -- |t A passe past? -- |t The body of the book -- |g ch. II |t Figuring What Comes Naturally? Writing The 'Art History' Of The Body -- |t A 'Greek Revolution' -- |t The Story of Art and the history of art history -- |t The burden of the Renaissance -- |t Seeing double -- |g ch. III |t The Ancient 'Female Nude' (And Other Modern Fictions) -- |t V-ness -- |t Crying, talking, sleeping, walking -- living dolls -- |t Looking at Aphrodite -- |t Aphrodite looks back -- |t Fatal attraction -- |t Slapping with slippers -- |g ch. IV |t Stripping Down And Undressing Up -- |t Indecent exposure -- |t Compromising traditions -- |t The emperor's new clothes -- |t Inheriting inherited bodies -- |t The body in pieces -- |g ch. V |t On Gods Made Men Made Images -- |t Imaging and imagining the gods -- |t God Incarnate -- |t Wholly holey holy Lord -- or God of power and might? -- |t Figuring [out] the empty body -- |t Icons and idols -- |t Beyond the body? |
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