1st Edition

Bodyscape Art, modernity and the ideal figure

By Nicholas Mirzoeff Copyright 1995
224 Pages
by Routledge

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