Body narratives: motion and emotion in the French Enlightenment

This book explores, in broad terms, the representations and understandings of the body's physical and psychological movement's meanings during the French Enlightenment in its many guises --artistic, esthetic, social, and erotic. It is centered on the fundamental tension between stasis and...

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Weitere Verfasser: Caviglia-Brunel, Susanna 1973- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Turnhout Brepols [2017]
Schriftenreihe:The body in art
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Zusammenfassung:This book explores, in broad terms, the representations and understandings of the body's physical and psychological movement's meanings during the French Enlightenment in its many guises --artistic, esthetic, social, and erotic. It is centered on the fundamental tension between stasis and movement, which is both constitutive of art historical reflection and embedded in the body's existence
Beschreibung:291 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9782503574745
DOI:10.11588/frrec.2018.2.48453