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.

Chapter

1. Representations of Drapery: an overview

2. Commodification, Cloth and Drapery

3. Fetishism, Drapery and Veils

4. The Fold: Baroque and Postmodern Draperies

5. Drapery and Contemporary Art

6. The Draped Body and News Photography

Conclusion

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