: Este libro explora y reeval�a la figura tradicional del h�roe musculoso y los or�genes del ideal occidental de un cuerpo perfectible, desarrollado a partir de los ideales corporales paganos de la antigua Grecia. Ilustra la evoluci�n de este ideal en el lenguaje visual de los culturistas y strippers. Traza 2500 a�os de la forma masculina, desde los kouroi griegos hasta los strippers y pin-ups masculinos modernos. EAN: 9780304332304 Tipo: Libros Categor�a: Arte y Cultura|Historia T�tulo: The Perfectible Body Autor: Kenneth R. Dutton Editorial: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. Idioma: en P�ginas: 400 Formato: tapa blanda.

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Title: The Perfectible Body
Publisher: Continuum
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0304332305
ISBN 13: 9780304332304
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Muy bueno

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From Greek kouroi to modern male strippers and pin-ups, traces 2500 years of the male form.

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What's most troubling about The Perfectible Body is that Dutton seems to think perfection comes in only one gender. An Australian professor of French, Dutton presents a readable and nuanced history of male body-building, from the ancient Greeks to today's pumped, steroid-enhanced, depilated, oiled and photographed trophies. His scholarship is thorough, and his grasp of the issues broad and complex, with a few true gems of insight. Though Dutton claims to take a balanced tone and to present no particular polemic, he nevertheless focuses his discussion of the "developed body" almost exclusively on the male body, slighting the female for "obvious reasons." These unexplained "reasons" may not be so obvious to many readers, and the tone reflects a running dismissiveness of legitimate feminist concerns. Others will not recognize Dutton's version of Western art and history, one that is revisionist, oversimplified and on occasion simply wrong. Dutton's ideal is a conservative, masculine one that excludes women, "cripples" (a term he uses) and essentially anyone else who isn't a hairless, youthful, pretty gym-jock.
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