Bodyscape: Art, Modernity and the Ideal Figure

by Nicholas Mirzoeff

This book explores body images in visual culture, from revolutionary France to contemporary New York. It engages with artists' use of different kinds of body images in painting, sculpture, photography and film, and shows the centrality of the body in the work of artists from da Vinci to Manet.

Genres: Art

224 pages, Paperback

First published November 23, 1995

Reviews

[Michael Farrell]

i would have rated this higher but the basquiat chapter is basically rubbish