Bodyscape: Art, Modernity and the Ideal Figure (Visual Cultures)

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
FIGURES......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 10
INTRODUCTION......Page 11
THE BODY BATTLE......Page 14
THE BODY IN THEORY......Page 16
WRESTLING WITH THE ANGELS......Page 21
1 BODYSCAPES......Page 27
BODY FRAGMENTS VERSUS UNIVERSAL FORMS......Page 29
BLINDNESS AND INSIGHT......Page 39
THE CANON OF BLINDNESS......Page 44
NOTES......Page 61
2 THE BODY POLITIC......Page 63
THE KING’S TWO BODIES......Page 64
THE STONE KING: REPRESENTING LOUIS XIV......Page 66
ENGENDERING THE CLASSICAL......Page 69
THE KING ALSO DIES......Page 76
REPUBLICAN BODY POLITICS......Page 78
DEFYING THE BODY POLITIC......Page 86
AFTER THE BODY POLITIC?......Page 89
IN MEMORIAM......Page 94
NOTE......Page 98
3 LIKE A VIRGIN?......Page 99
POST-REVOLUTIONARY DEPRESSION......Page 100
RESTORING ART......Page 102
FROM THE MADONNA TO THE HAREM......Page 108
BUT IS IT ART?......Page 117
CODA: MADONNAS ON SCREEN......Page 123
NOTES......Page 130
4 PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE HEART OF DARKNESS......Page 131
ENVISAGING THE CONGO......Page 137
ANTHROPOLOGY, EUGENICS AND PHOTOGRAPHY......Page 141
THE POLITICS OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCE......Page 151
NOTES......Page 154
5 PAINTING AT THE HEART OF WHITENESS......Page 156
GRAFFITI, HIP-HOP AND THE ART WORLD......Page 157
RACE AND MODERN ART......Page 164
DIASPORA, WANDERING AND REPRESENTATION......Page 171
NOTES......Page 180
EPILOGUE FROM TERMINATOR TO WITNESS......Page 181
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 188
INDEX......Page 197