Bodyscape: Art, Modernity and the Ideal Figure

by Nicholas Mirzoeff

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415098017
• ISBN13: 9780415098014
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"