| Description |
176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Perspectives |
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Perspectives (Harry N. Abrams, Inc.)
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| Contents |
Introduction: Waxworks, Dolls, and Doppelgangers -- 1. Idols, Myths, and Magic: The Body in Antiquity. The Mother Goddess. Simplicity and Silence: Cycladic Sculpture. Xoana: Aniconic Idols. Kalos thanatos: The Beautiful Death. Artemis, "Lady of the Beasts" Sophrosyne and Self-knowledge. Perfection Through Numbers. "An inescapable delight for the vision" -- 2. The Body Re-born: The Middle Ages. The Body Emerges. Mary the Mediator. Opening the Body. The Body in Perspective. Donatello: Ancient into Modern -- 3. The Apotheosis of the Body: Mannerism and Baroque. Surface and Structure: The Body Flayed. Laocoon: The Body Unearthed. Cellini: Eight Views of the Body. The Unfolding Narrative. Polychromy: The Painter's Hand. Mystical Visions: The Body in Ecstasy -- 4. The Sublime Body: The Eighteenth Century. Falconet: The Triumph of the Moderns. Noble Simplicity: Antiquity Revived. Collecting the Past. Illumination and Enlightenment. Quatremere de Quincy: Polychromy Reassessed |
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Neo-classicism in the United States. An Unsuitable Job for a Woman. Monuments and Men: The Body in Public -- 5. The Body in Colour: The Nineteenth Century. "The Warmth of Life": Colour and Controversy. Waxworks and Auto-icons. Minerva in France. The Legacy of Michelangelo. The Primitive and the Prurient. The New Sculpture: An English Renaissance. Crafting the Body: Gilbert, Gerome, Klinger. Rodin: The Unity of Fragments -- 6. Abjection and Assemblage: The Body in the Twentieth Century. Expanding Horizons. Welcome to the Machine. Space as a Sculptural Element. Dream, Reality: Surreality. Surface and Structure. Truth in Refuse: The Body Assembled. Disturbing Identity: The Abject and the Uncanny. Body and Self |
| Summary |
A survey of the human body in Western sculpture from prehistory to the present |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-171) and index |
| Subject |
Art, Cycladic.
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Figure sculpture -- History.
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Figure sculpture.
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Human figure in art.
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| LC no. |
97034767 |
| ISBN |
0810927160 (paperback) |
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