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Author Westley, Hannah.

Title The Body as Medium and Metaphor.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (213 pages).
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Series Faux Titre, 312 ; v. v. 312
Faux titre ; 312.
Contents The Body as Medium and Metaphor; Contents; Introduction; Imaging the Absent Subject: Marcel Duchamp's Le Grand Verre; The Autoportrait: Michel Leiris' L'Âge d'Homme; Mimicking Mimesis: Francis Bacon's Portraits; Textual Imagery: Visualizing the Self in the Writing of Bernard Noël and Gisèle Prassinos; From the informe to the abject: shifting morphologies in the art of Louise Bourgeois and Orlan; Conclusion; Bibliography.
Summary Reconsidering the relationship between autobiography and self-portraiture, The Body as Medium and Metaphor explores the intertextuality of self-representation in twentieth-century French art. Situating the body as the nexus of intersections between the written word and the visual image, this book rethinks the problematic status of the self. Starting at the twentieth-century's departure from figurative and mimetic representation, this study discusses the work of seminal artists and writers - including Marcel Duchamp, Michel Leiris, Francis Bacon, Bernard Noël, Gisèle Prassinos, Louise Bourgeois.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212).
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Subject Autobiography.
Autobiography.
Art and literature -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Art and literature.
France.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
French literature.
Self-portraits -- France.
Self-portraits.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Westley, Hannah. Body as Medium and Metaphor. Amsterdam : Rodopi, ©2008 9789042023987
ISBN 9789401205856
940120585X
9781435647534 (electronic book)
143564753X (electronic book)
9042023988
9789042023987