SOCIAL IMPACT OF OIL

by Mirzoeff,Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9780415098007
• ISBN10: 0415098009
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-12-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Western art has long sought to visualize the perfect body. Whether composed from fragments or derived from a single model, this ideal, straight, white body is now in crisis. But what will take its place? InBodyscape,Nicholas Mirzoeff traces the roots of our current obsession with body images from revolutionary France to contemporary New York. He argues that the representation of the body has always shaped, and been shaped by, crises of political and cultural identity. Mirzoeff's illuminating study engages with artists' work in painting, sculpture, photography and film, showing the centrality of the body in the work of artists ranging from Leonardo, Manet and Poussin, to photographers Julia Margaret Cameron and Paul Strand, to Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith and Nancy Spero. _

Table of Contents

List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Bodyscapes	p. 19
Body fragments versus universal forms	p. 21
Blindness and insight	p. 32
The canon of blindness	p. 37
The Body Politic	p. 58
The king's two bodies	p. 59
The stone king: representing Louis XIV	p. 62
Engendering the Classical	p. 65
The king also dies	p. 72
Republican body politics	p. 75
Defying the body politic	p. 83
After the body politic?	p. 87
In memoriam	p. 93
Like a Virgin?	p. 98
Post-Revolutionary depression	p. 99
Restoring art	p. 102
From the Madonna to the harem	p. 108
But is it Art?	p. 118
Coda: Madonnas on screen	p. 126
Photography at the Heart of Darkness	p. 135
Envisaging the Congo	p. 141
Anthropology, eugenics and photography	p. 146
The politics of cultural difference	p. 157
Painting at the Heart of Whiteness	p. 162
Graffiti, hip-hop and the art world	p. 163
Race and modern art	p. 171
Diaspora, wandering and representation	p. 180
Epilogue: From Terminator to Witness	p. 191
Bibliography	p. 199
Index	p. 208
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