ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |16 pages

INTRODUCTION

chapter 1|36 pages

BODYSCAPES

chapter 2|36 pages

THE BODY POLITIC

chapter 3|32 pages

LIKE A VIRGIN?

chapter 4|25 pages

PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE HEART OF DARKNESS

chapter 5|25 pages

PAINTING AT THE HEART OF WHITENESS