ISBN: 9780300054439 - The Spectacular Body – Science, Method & Meaning in the Work of Degas (11 results)

Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Glossy black dust jacket with color-illustration and white lettering. xii, 244 pp. BW and some color illustrations. Explores the ways in which the human body, especially the female body, was visualized by artists in the late-19th century. The book focuses on the work of Degas and deals with issues of gender, sexuality and visual representation to illuminate the Impressionist's depictions of women. -WorldCat. VG/VG- light wear and some scuffing to dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Cloth, dj. Minor shelf wear. Else a bright, clean copy. The Spectacular Body explores the ways in which the human body--especially the female body--was visualized by artists in late nineteenth-century Paris. Focusing on the work of Degas, it deals with issues of sexuality, gender, and visual representation to illuminate the underlying meanings of the famed Impressionist's depictions of women in his series of bathers, dancers, and prostitutes. Engaging in feminist polemic, Anthea Callen investigates why at this particular time the female figure became such a highly charged icon for masculine projections of fascination with and revulsion over the body. She explains how the gender politics of Degas' culture made it inevitable that he represent masculine desire--and anxieties about masculine identity evoked by such desire--through an apparently detached masculine scrutiny of the female body. Callen shows how Degas' pictorial stance was structurally unresolved, caught between a controlling, distanced, quasi-scientific observation on the one hand, and a disruptive and more unmediated, more psychically loaded engagement with the body on the other. Locating Degas' art within his own historical era, she discusses how socio-scientific ideas of health and disease, hygiene and dirt, prostitution, criminality, sexuality, class, race, and other issues were played out in his work. Using visual analysis as a deconstructive tool, she discusses Degas' choice of medium, composition, spatial organization, pose, color, and light and shade, showing that his technical unorthodoxy combined with scientific discourse in his art to make his work a paradigm of artistic and urban modernity.…

Condition: Near Fine. Hbk, 4to, 244pp, profusely illustr throughout in color and b+w, lacks dj, fine red cloth boards with bright gilt titles to the spine, now in custom acetate jacket, appears unread and an excellent, clean, tight and unmarked copy.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Color and black and white illustrations. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 4to. pp. xii, 244. 133 illus. (some colour). biblio. index. cloth. dw. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Condition: new. New.

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