Screen LibraryThe body and the arts
The Body and the Arts focuses on the dynamic relation between the body and the arts: the body as inspiration, subject, symbol and medium. Contributors from a variety of disciplines explore this relation across a range of periods and art forms, spanning medicine, literature from the classical period...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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The Body and the Arts focuses on the dynamic relation between the body and the arts: the body as inspiration, subject, symbol and medium. Contributors from a variety of disciplines explore this relation across a range of periods and art forms, spanning medicine, literature from the classical period to the present, and visual and performing arts. |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2009. |
| Carrier Form: | 312 p. : 50 b&w, halftones. |
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9780230552043 9780230234000 : 0230234003 : |
| CLC: | J042 |
| Contents: | Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction-- C.Saunders, U.Maude and J.Macnaughton PART I: THINKING THE BODY Polyclitus among the Philosophers: Canons of Classical Beauty-- G.Boys-Stones Body as Graced or Vile: Tensions in the Christian Vision-- D.Brown The Smoke of the Soul: Anatomy, Medical Spirits and the Rete Mirabile: 1538-1643-- R.Sugg The Fizziness Business-- S.Connor Flesh Revealed: Medicine, Art and Anatomy-- J.Macnaughton PART II: WRITING THE BODY The Affective Body: Love, Virtue and Vision in English Medieval Literature-- C.Saunders Victorian Literature and Bringing the Body Back from the Dead-- F.O'Gorman Modernist Bodies: Coming to Our Senses-- U.Maude Writing the Body: Modernism and Postmodernism-- P.Waugh Detective Fiction and the Body-- P.D.James (in conversation with C.Saunders) PART III: VIEWING THE BODY Pygmalion, Painted Flesh, and the Female Body-- M.Postle Satyrs, Harpies, Jellyfish, and Mutants: Ovidian Metamorphosis in Contemporary Art-- M.Warner Body, Space, Time-- A.Gormley Une ecriture corporelle: The Dancer in the Text of Mallarme and Yeats-- S.Jones The Erotic and the Sacred Body in Opera: the Venusberg to Monsalvat -- and beyond-- D.Fuller Celluloid Formaldehyde? The Body on Film-- J.Buchanan Index. |