Bodyscape: Art, modernity and the ideal figure

Mirzoeff, Nicholas

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.

EAN

9780415098014

Publisher

Routledge

Published

18 December 1995

Pages

224