The body and the arts / edited by Corinne Saunders, Ulrika Maude and Jane Macnaughton.
Material type: TextPublication details: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.Description: xv, 292 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780230552043
- 0230552048
- 704.942 SAU
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Thinking The Body Polyclitus among the Philosophers: Canons of Classical Beauty
- Body as Graced or Vile: Tensions in the Christian Vision
- The Smoke of the Soul: Anatomy, Medical Spirits and the Rete Mirabile: 1538-1643
- The Fizziness Business
- Flesh Revealed: Medicine, Art and Anatomy
- Part II Writing The Body The Affective Body: Love, Virtue and Vision in English Medieval Literature
- Victorian Literature and Bringing the Body Back from the Dead
- Modernist Bodies: Coming to Our Senses
- Writing the Body: Modernism and Postmodernism
- Detective Fiction and the Body
- Part III Viewing The Body Pygmalion, Painted Flesh, and the Female Body
- Satyrs, Harpies, Jellyfish, and Mutants: Ovidian Metamorphosis in Contemporary Art
- Body, Space, Time
- Une criture corporelle: The Dancer in the Text of Mallarm and Yeats
- The Erotic and the Sacred Body in Opera: the Venusberg to Monsalvat and beyond
- The Body on Film
- Index