Drapery by Gen Doy

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Summary

Gen Doy investigates the hitherto neglected meanings of drapery and the draped body in visual culture around the world. She looks at areas such as the fetishistic interplay between veiling and revealing and the changes in drapery's connotations from purity to barbarity in holy war torn countries.

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Drapery by Gen Doy

Gen Doy investigates the hitherto neglected meanings of drapery and the draped body in visual culture around the world. She looks at areas such as the fetishistic interplay between veiling and revealing and the changes in drapery's connotations from purity to barbarity in holy war torn countries.
Gen Doy is Professor of the History and Theory of Visual Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester and the author of Black Visual Culture: Modernity and Postmodernity and Drapery: Classicism and Barbarism in Visual Culture (both I.B.Tauris)
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ISBN 13 9781860645396
ISBN 10 1860645399
Title Drapery
Author Gen Doy
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2001-12-21
Number of pages 299
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