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9780520227927

Spectacular Bodies

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520227927

  • ISBN10:

    0520227921

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-11-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr
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Summary

Know Thyself is published to accompany a major exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in 2000. The exhibition features the various ways in which artists have depicted the human body, and includes a selection of works by Michelangelo, Stubbs, and Degas.

Table of Contents

Preface 6(2)
Curators' acknowledgements 8(3)
Introduction: `Know Thyself' 11(9)
Part I The Divine Machine 20(72)
Men at Work: The Rituals of Dissection
23(9)
Waxing Eloquent: Anatomy and Style
32(37)
Artists and Academies
69(23)
Part II The House of the Soul 92(56)
Reading the Signs
94(30)
Mad and Bad; Addled and Atavistic
124(24)
Part III New Bodies 148(64)
Modernist Absence and Post Modern Presences
150(8)
New Eyes
158(54)
John Isaacs
158(8)
Katharine Dowson
166(4)
Marc Quinn
170(6)
Beth B
176(8)
Christine Borland
184(6)
Gerhard Lang
190(10)
Tony Oursler
200(6)
Bill Viola
206(6)
Notes 212(4)
List of Works 216(16)
Lenders 232

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