xii, 288 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. *** "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 'Gravida,' Clerambault's writings and photographs of draped figures, the fetishistic play between veiling and revealing and the meanings of drapery in recent art, from Christo's wrapped Reichstag to the impact of the modern women's movement on fine art practice. Yet she also finds and focuses on the draped body now in places like Algeria and Kosovo where drapery's connotations are no longer those of purity and civilized elegance but of barbarism, poverty, and savage death." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

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Title

Drapery: Classicism and Barbarism in Visual Culture

Publisher

I B Tauris Publishers, London

Publication Date

2002

Language

English

ISBN 10

1860645399

ISBN 13

9781860645396

Binding

Paperback

Condition

Fine

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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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