Drapery
：Classicism and Barbarism in Visual Culture
Publication subTitle ：Classicism and Barbarism in Visual Culture
Author： Doy> Gen
Publisher： I.B.Tauris
Publication year： 2001
E-ISBN: 9780857712202
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781860645396
Subject： J0 Art Theory
Keyword： 艺术理论
Language： ENG
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Description
In this fascinating, accessible book, Gen Doy investigates the hitherto neglected meanings of drapery and the draped body in visual culture. The Baroque and the classical are her subjects, as are Freud's Gradiva, Clerambault's writings and photographs of draped figures and Christo's wrapped Reichstag but she also finds and focuses on the draped body now in countries like Algeria and Kosovo where drapery's connotations are no longer those of purity and civilised elegance, but of barbarism, poverty, and savage death.
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