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Title:

The body aesthetic : from fine art to body modification / edited by Tobin Siebers.

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

245 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Body, Human--Social aspects.
Body, Human--Symbolic aspects.
Body image
Body marking.
Body art
Anthropology
Human Body.
Art.
Body image
Esthetics.
Lichaamscultuur.
Esthetica.

Other Authors:

Siebers, Tobin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Introduction : Defining the body aesthetic / Tobin Siebers -- Postcards to Sophie Calle / Joseph Grigely -- Viewing and the viewer : empire and the culture of spectacle / Simon Goldhill -- Representing girls : modernity, cultural anxiety, and the imaginary / Richard Leppert -- Where "sleeps" are a measure of miles : physical conceptions of space and time in Inuit art / Marion Jackson -- The bride wore trousers : the life and photographs of Isabelle Raymond / Cynthia S. Greig -- The body sacrificial / Eric Gans -- Hunger artists : eating disorders and mimetic desire / René Girard -- Imagined ugliness : a history of the psychiatric response to aesthetic surgery / Sander L. Gilman -- The new art / Tobin Siebers.

Series:

Ratio

ISBN:

9780472086733 (pbk.)
0472086731 (pbk.)
9780472111237 (cloth : alk. paper)
047211123X (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)43810877

LCCN:

00039229

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)