The Body as Medium and Metaphor.

By:

Westley, Hannah

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Faux Titre, 312Publication details: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (213 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9789401205856
940120585X
9781435647534
143564753X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Body as Medium and Metaphor.DDC classification:

840.90091

LOC classification:

PQ2631.R63 W47 2008eb

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Contents:

The Body as Medium and Metaphor; Contents; 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.

Summary: 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 rethinks the problematic status of the self. Starting at the twentieth-century's departure from figurative and mimetic representation, this study discusses the work of seminal artists and writers - including Marcel Duchamp, Michel Leiris, Francis Bacon, Bernard Noël, Gisèle Prassinos, Louise Bourgeois.

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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 rethinks the problematic status of the self. Starting at the twentieth-century's departure from figurative and mimetic representation, this study discusses the work of seminal artists and writers - including Marcel Duchamp, Michel Leiris, Francis Bacon, Bernard Noël, Gisèle Prassinos, Louise Bourgeois.