| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 292 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Polyclitus among the philosophers : canons of classical beauty / George Boys-Stones -- Body as graced or vile : tensions in the Christian vision / David Brown -- The smoke of the soul : anatomy, medical spirits and the Rete mirabile : 1538-1643 / Richard Sugg -- The fizziness business / Steven Connor -- Flesh revealed : medicine, art, and anatomy / Jane Macnaughton -- The affective body : love, virtue, and vision in English medieval literature / Corinne Saunders -- Victorian literature and bringing the body back from the dead / Francis O'Gorman -- Modernist bodies : coming to our senses / Ulrika Maude -- Writing the body : modernism and postmodernism / Patricia Waugh -- Detective fiction and the body / P.D. James (in conversation with Corinne Saunders) -- Pygmalion, painted flesh, and the female body / Martin Postle -- Satyrs, spiders, jellyfish, and mutants : Ovidian metamorphosis in contemporary art / Marina Warner -- Body, space, time / Antony Gormley -- Une écriture corporelle : the dancer in the text of Mallarmé and Yeats / Susan Jones -- The erotic and the sacred body in opera : the Venusberg to Monsalvat and beyond / David Fuller -- Celluloid formaldehyde? : the body on film / Judith Buchanan |
| Summary |
The Body and the Arts focuses on the dynamic relation between the body and the arts: the body as inspiration, subject, symbol and medium. Contributors from a variety of academic and artistic disciplines explore this complex and shifting relation across a range of periods, literatures and other art forms, spanning the subjects of medicine, literature from the classical period to the present, and the visual and performing arts, including film, dance and opera. The book engages with enduring cultural issues: the materiality of the body, the tension between actual and ideal, beauty and horror, the interconnection of the history of medicine with the cultural history of the body, the complex process of negotiation between the actual human body and the artist, and the effect of science and technology on artistic representations of the body. The volume includes essays by Marina Warner, Antony Gormley and P.D. James |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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Human body in literature.
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Human figure in art.
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Human body (Philosophy)
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Human body -- Symbolic aspects.
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Human body -- Religious aspects.
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Human body -- Social aspects.
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Literature and medicine
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Medicine and art.
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Anatomy, Artistic.
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Human beings in art.
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Anatomy, Artistic
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Theory of art.
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Literary studies: general.
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Dance & other performing arts.
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ART -- Reference.
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ART -- Performance.
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Art and Design.
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Anatomy, Artistic
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English literature
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Human body in literature
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Human body (Philosophy)
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Human body -- Religious aspects
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Human body -- Social aspects
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Human body -- Symbolic aspects
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Human figure in art
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Literature and medicine
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Medicine and art
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Saunders, Corinne J., 1963-
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Maude, Ulrika
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Macnaughton, Jane
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| ISBN |
9780230234000 |
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0230234003 |
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