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Author Squire, Michael

Title The art of the body : antiquity and its legacy / Michael Squire
Published London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 240 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Series Ancients and moderns series
Ancients and moderns series.
Contents Ch. I Embodying The Classical -- 'Ancients and moderns' -- The thinking behind the body -- Body Fascism -- A passe past? -- The body of the book -- ch. II Figuring What Comes Naturally? Writing The 'Art History' Of The Body -- A 'Greek Revolution' -- The Story of Art and the history of art history -- The burden of the Renaissance -- Seeing double -- ch. III The Ancient 'Female Nude' (And Other Modern Fictions) -- V-ness -- Crying, talking, sleeping, walking -- living dolls -- Looking at Aphrodite -- Aphrodite looks back -- Fatal attraction -- Slapping with slippers -- ch. IV Stripping Down And Undressing Up -- Indecent exposure -- Compromising traditions -- The emperor's new clothes -- Inheriting inherited bodies -- The body in pieces -- ch. V On Gods Made Men Made Images -- Imaging and imagining the gods -- God Incarnate -- Wholly holey holy Lord -- or God of power and might? -- Figuring [out] the empty body -- Icons and idols -- Beyond the body?
Summary The art of the human body is arguably the most important and wide-ranging legacy bequeathed to us by Classical antiquity. Not only has it directed the course of western image-making, it has shaped our collective cultural imaginary - as ideal, antitype, and point of departure. This book is the first concerted attempt to grapple with that legacy: it explores the complex relationship between Graeco-Roman images of the body and subsequent western engagements with them, from the Byzantine icon to Venice Beach (and back again). Instead of approaching his material chronologically, Michael Squire face
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-229) and index
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Subject Human beings in art -- Psychological aspects
Art, Classical.
Art and society.
Civilization, Modern -- Classical influences.
History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE.
ART -- History -- General.
Art and society
Art, Classical
Civilization, Modern -- Classical influences
Human beings in art -- Psychological aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780857719317
0857719319
9780755625239
0755625234