| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 240 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Ancients and moderns series
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Ancients and moderns series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-229) and index. |
| Contents |
Ch. I Embodying The Classical -- 'Ancients and moderns' -- Thinking behind the body -- Body Fascism -- A passe past? -- Body of the book -- ch. II Figuring What Comes Naturally? Writing The 'Art History' Of The Body -- A 'Greek Revolution' -- Story of Art and the history of art history -- Burden of the Renaissance -- Seeing double -- ch. III Ancient 'Female Nude' (And Other Modern Fictions) -- V-ness -- Crying, talking, sleeping, walking -- living dolls -- Looking at Aphrodite -- Aphrodite looks back -- Fatal attraction -- Slapping with slippers -- ch. IV Stripping Down And Undressing Up -- Indecent exposure -- Compromising traditions -- Emperor's new clothes -- Inheriting inherited bodies -- Body in pieces -- ch. V On Gods Made Men Made Images -- Imaging and imagining the gods -- God Incarnate -- Wholly holey holy Lord -- or God of power and might? -- Figuring [out] the empty body -- Icons and idols -- Beyond the body? |
| Summary |
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 concerted attempt to grapple with that legacy: it explores the complex relationship between Graeco-Roman images of the body and subsequent western engagements with them, from the Byzantine icon to Venice Beach (and back again). Instead of approaching his material chronologically, Michael Squire face. |
| Note |
Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human beings in art -- Psychological aspects.
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Human beings in art -- Psychological aspects. |
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Human beings in art. |
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Art, Classical.
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Art, Classical. |
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Art and society.
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Civilization, Modern -- Classical influences.
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Art and society. |
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History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE. |
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Civilization, Modern -- Classical influences. |
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ART -- History -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Squire, Michael. Art of the body. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2011 9781845119300 (OCoLC)716832756 |
| ISBN |
9780857719317 (electronic book) |
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0857719319 (electronic book) |
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9781845119300 |
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1845119304 |
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9781845119317 |
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1845119312 |
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9780755625239 (online) |
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0755625234 |
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9780857738561 electronic book |
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