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Author Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 1962- author.
Title Bodyscape : art, modernity and the ideal figure / Nicholas Mirzoeff.
Publication Info London : Routledge, 1995.


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Descript 214p.
Contents 1. Bodyscapes. Body fragments versus universal forms. Blindness and insight. The canon of blindness -- 2. The Body Politic. The king's two bodies. The stone king: representing Louis XIV. Engendering the Classical. The king also dies. Republican body politics. Defying the body politic. After the body politic? In memoriam -- 3. Like a Virgin? Post-Revolutionary depression. Restoring art. From the Madonna to the harem. But is it Art? Coda: Madonnas on screen -- 4. Photography at the Heart of Darkness. Envisaging the Congo. Anthropology, eugenics and photography. The politics of cultural difference -- 5. Painting at the Heart of Whiteness. Graffiti, hip-hop and the art world. Race and modern art. Diaspora, wandering and representation -- Epilogue: From Terminator to Witness.
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0415098017
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Author Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 1962- author.
Series Visual cultures
Subject Art, Modern -- 20th century.
Popular culture.
Postmodernism.
Descript 214p.
Contents 1. Bodyscapes. Body fragments versus universal forms. Blindness and insight. The canon of blindness -- 2. The Body Politic. The king's two bodies. The stone king: representing Louis XIV. Engendering the Classical. The king also dies. Republican body politics. Defying the body politic. After the body politic? In memoriam -- 3. Like a Virgin? Post-Revolutionary depression. Restoring art. From the Madonna to the harem. But is it Art? Coda: Madonnas on screen -- 4. Photography at the Heart of Darkness. Envisaging the Congo. Anthropology, eugenics and photography. The politics of cultural difference -- 5. Painting at the Heart of Whiteness. Graffiti, hip-hop and the art world. Race and modern art. Diaspora, wandering and representation -- Epilogue: From Terminator to Witness.
ISBN 9780415098014
0415098017
Author Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 1962- author.
Series Visual cultures
Subject Art, Modern -- 20th century.
Popular culture.
Postmodernism.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  N 6494 P66 M6  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Art, Modern -- 20th century.
Popular culture.
Postmodernism.
Descript 214p.
Contents 1. Bodyscapes. Body fragments versus universal forms. Blindness and insight. The canon of blindness -- 2. The Body Politic. The king's two bodies. The stone king: representing Louis XIV. Engendering the Classical. The king also dies. Republican body politics. Defying the body politic. After the body politic? In memoriam -- 3. Like a Virgin? Post-Revolutionary depression. Restoring art. From the Madonna to the harem. But is it Art? Coda: Madonnas on screen -- 4. Photography at the Heart of Darkness. Envisaging the Congo. Anthropology, eugenics and photography. The politics of cultural difference -- 5. Painting at the Heart of Whiteness. Graffiti, hip-hop and the art world. Race and modern art. Diaspora, wandering and representation -- Epilogue: From Terminator to Witness.
ISBN 9780415098014
0415098017
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