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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Routledge,
1995.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Bodyscapes. Body fragments versus universal forms. Blindness and insight. The canon of blindness
- 2. The Body Politic. The king's two bodies. The stone king: representing Louis XIV. Engendering the Classical. The king also dies. Republican body politics. Defying the body politic. After the body politic? In memoriam
- 3. Like a Virgin? Post-Revolutionary depression. Restoring art. From the Madonna to the harem. But is it Art? Coda: Madonnas on screen
- 4. Photography at the Heart of Darkness. Envisaging the Congo. Anthropology, eugenics and photography. The politics of cultural difference
- 5. Painting at the Heart of Whiteness. Graffiti, hip-hop and the art world. Race and modern art. Diaspora, wandering and representation
- Epilogue: From Terminator to Witness.