Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Hirsh, Jennie

Title Contemporary Art and Classical Myth
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2011

Copies

Description 1 online resource (411 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Prologue; 1 Faraway, So Close: Mythic Origins, Contemporary Art: The Case of Kara Walker; Section I: Myth as Meaning; 2 A Poetics of Becoming: The Mythography of Cy Twombly; 3 Art is Glimpsed; 4 Narcissus, Narcosis, Neurosis: The Visions of Yayoi Kusama; 5 The Porous Space of Bracha L. Ettinger's Eurydices; 6 Double Take, or Theorizing Reflection in Felix Gonzalez-Torres; Section II: Myth as Medium; 7 Lichtenstein's Narcissus
8 Philomela as Metaphor: Sexuality, Pornography, and Seduction in the Textile Works of Tracey Emin and Ghada Amer9 Icarus Returned: The Falling Man and the Survival of Antiquity; 10 Deep Shit: Thoughts on Wim Delvoye's Cloaca Project; Section III: Myth as Method; 11 A New Parrhasius: Duane Hanson's Uncanny Realism; 12 Over and Over, Again and Again; 13 Video Art in the House of Hades; Section IV: Epilogue; 14 The Sphinx Unwinds Her Own Sweet Self; Bibliography; Index; Plates
Notes Print version record
Form Electronic book
Author Wallace, Dr Isabelle Loring
ISBN 9781351571036
1351571036