Image of the Body

by Michael Gill

Book Overview

The human body is without doubt the most enduring subject of art. For more than 20,000 years artists have been making use of bodily images. Part art history, part social history, this is an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385260725
• ISBN13: 9780385260725
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

wonderful book

I ran across this book in a used bookstore, and found it one of the most enjoyable reads I have encountered in a good while. The one flaw I found in it is that I thought it takes the PC line of the development of modern 20th century art a bit too inquestioningly. From about 1860 onward the thrust of the Advant Garde was aimed at, in Gill's words, and here he quotes the original artists, - the destruction of the traditions of Western art. But he never really explains what, if anything, they hoped to accomplish by it.