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Binding the absent body in medieval and modern art : abject, virtual, and alternate bodies
Title:
Binding the absent body in medieval and modern art : abject, virtual, and alternate bodies
Author:
Kelley, Emily D., editor.
ISBN:
9781472459367
Physical Description:
xii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
General Note:
"An Ashgate book"--Cover.
Contents:
1. Blood, sweat, tears, and milk: "Fluid veneration, sensory contact, and corporeal presence in medieval devotional art / Vibeke Olson -- 2. "No living presence": human absence in the early work of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg / Rebekah Scoggins -- 3. Maria Ecclesia: The Aachen Marienschrein as an alternate body for the Virgin Mary / Lisa Victoria Ciresi -- 4. Drawn to scale: the medieval monastic's virtual pilgrimage through sacred measurement / Natalie M. Mandziuk -- 5. Cloth as a sign of the absent body in American sculpture from the 1960s / Elizabeth Richards Rivenbank -- 6. Imagining the sorrows of death and pains of hell in the Hours of Catherine of Cleves / Jennifer M. Feltman -- 7. The absent body as divine reflection in Parmigianino's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror / Margaret A. Morse -- 8. A clear preoccupation with death: the absent body in Mark Rothko's mature style / Michael R. Smith, Jr.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-189) and index.
Field 805:
npmlib 10701959 N7625.5 B56 ysh
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