Bodyscape [electronic resource] : art, modernity, and the ideal figure / Nicholas Mirzoeff.

Western art has long sought to visualize the perfect body. Whether composed from fragments or derived from a single model, this ideal, straight, white body is now in crisis. But what will take its place? In Bodyscape, Nicholas Mirzoeff traces the roots of our current obsession with body images from...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author:	Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 1962-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
Series:	Visual cultures.
Subjects:	Art, Modern > 20th century. Popular culture. Postmodernism. Art, Modern. 1900-1999