Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-281) and index.
Contents:
The stroller : Saint-Aubin's urban drawing / Ewa Lajer-Burcharth. Part three, Body temporality : aesthetics of walking. The body speaks : anatomical narratives in French Enlightenment sculpture / Dorothy Johnson - Anti-Pygmalion : body movement and equivocalities in Jean-Baptiste Restout's "Diogenes asking for alms" / Étienne Jollet - Part two, The mobile body : social identity and visual dynamics. Tapestries and identities at the Hôtel de Soubise : figuration, embodied vision, and intercorporeality / Mimi Hellman - Watching her step : Marie-Antoinette and the art of walking / Melissa Hyde - Part three, Body temporality : aesthetics of walking. Movement and stasis : another pilgrimage to Cythera / Mary D. Sheriff - The stroller : Saint-Aubin's urban drawing / Ewa Lajer-Burcharth.
Summary:
This book explores, in broad terms, the representations and understandings of the body's physical and psychological movement's meanings during the French Enlightenment in its many guises --artistic, esthetic, social, and erotic. It is centered on the fundamental tension between stasis and movement, which is both constitutive of art historical reflection and embedded in the body's existence.
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