Pictures of the body : pain and metamorphosis / James Elkins.
By: Elkins, James
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BookPublisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999Description: xvi, 347 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0804730245.Subject(s): Art -- Philosophy | Metamorphosis in art | Human figure in artDDC classification: 704.942
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 704.942 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00055256 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In a wide-ranging argument moving from ancient Middle Eastern representations to Balthus, from Syriac prayer books to John Carpenter's film The Thing, this book explores the ways the body has been represented through time. It attempts to form a single coherent account of the possible forms of representation of the body, through the concepts of pain and metamorphosis. The author shows how these two have animated and ordered the vast range of images that have been produced in Western representation, and he argues that they continue to be generative concepts even amid the welter of today's new forms. This work brings together concerns, images, and concepts from a wide range of perspectives: art history and criticism, the history and philosophy of medicine, the history of race, phenomenological and post phenomenological thought, studies of feminism and pornography, and the new interest in visual studies.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Illustrations (p. xiii)
- List of Tables (p. xvii)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Part 1 Pain
- 1. Membranes (p. 35)
- 2. Psychomachia (p. 71)
- 3. Cut Flesh (p. 109)
- Part 2 Metamorphosis
- 4. By Looking Alone (p. 153)
- 5. Analogic Seeing (p. 205)
- 6. Dry Schemata (p. 245)
- Notes (p. 287)
- Index (p. 339)