Bodyscape

Bodyscape

Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
Summary

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.

The feel-good place to buy books
  • Free US shipping over $15
  • Buying preloved emits 41% less CO2 than new
  • Millions of affordable books
  • Give your books a new home - sell them back to us!

Bodyscape by Nicholas Mirzoeff

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.
Nicholas Mirzoeff is Associate Professor of Art at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Bodyscape; Art, Modernity and the Ideal Figure (1995) and An Introduction to Visual Culture (1999), and the editor of The Visual Culture Reader (second edition 2002)
SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9780415098014
ISBN 10 0415098017
Title Bodyscape
Author Nicholas Mirzoeff
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published 1995-12-18
Number of pages 224
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.