The body as medium and metaphor / / Hannah Westley.
Reconsidering the relationship between autobiography and self-portraiture, The Body as Medium and Metaphor explores the intertextuality of self-representation in twentieth-century French art. Situating the body as the nexus of intersections between the written word and the visual image, this book re...
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| Superior document: | Faux titre ; 312 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Faux titre ;
312. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (213 pages) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Imaging the Absent Subject: Marcel Duchamp’s Le Grand Verre
- The Autoportrait: Michel Leiris’ L’Âge d’Homme
- Mimicking Mimesis: Francis Bacon’s Portraits
- Textual Imagery: Visualizing the Self in the Writing of Bernard Noël and Gisèle Prassinos
- From the informe to the abject: shifting morphologies in the art of Louise Bourgeois and Orlan
- Conclusion
- Bibliography.