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Pictures of the Body: Pain and Metamorphosis  
Author: James Elkins
ISBN: 0804730237
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Pictures of the Body: Pain and Metamorphosis

FROM THE PUBLISHER

In a wide-ranging argument moving from Sumerian demons to Lucian Freud, from Syriac prayer books to John Carpenter's film The Thing, this book explores the ways the body has been represented through time. A response to the vertiginous increase in writings on bodily representations, it attempts to form a single coherent account of the possible forms of representation of the body.. "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. Yet it is less a philosopher's look at history or a historian's foray into philosophy than a practical and critical look at the current constellation of art practices. Above all, it is intended to be of immediate use in the conceptualization and production of visual art and its history.

FROM THE CRITICS

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Elkins (art history, theory, and criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago) addresses the conditions of representation of bodies in general and their varying relations to viewers in a range of media including photographs, drawings, paintings, carvings, and more from the ancient world to the present. Includes 112 illustrations. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

     



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