Gen Doy investigates the hitherto neglected meanings of drapery and the draped body in visual culture around the world. She looks at areas such as the fetishistic interplay between veiling and revealing and the changes in drapery's connotations from purity to barbarity in holy war torn countries. Num Pages: 299 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: AGH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 680. . 2001. paperback. . . . .

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Title: Drapery: Classicism and Barbarism in Visual Culture
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Publication Date: 2001
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1860645399
ISBN 13: 9781860645396
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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In this fascinating and 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 the fetishistic play between veiling and repeating. Doy explores the meanings of drapery in recent art, from Christo's wrapped Reichstag to the impact of the modern women's art movement on fine art practice.

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Gen Doy is Professor of the History and Theory of Visual Culture at de Montfort University.

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