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Too beautiful to picture : Zeuxis, myth, and mimesis
- Title
- Too beautiful to picture : Zeuxis, myth, and mimesis / Elizabeth C. Mansfield.
- Author
- Mansfield, Elizabeth, 1965-
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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Details
- Description
- xxi, 232 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-211) and index.
- Contents
- Myth and Mimesis in western art history -- Art history as myth -- The Zeuxis myth -- Myth and Mimesis in the Renaissance -- Painting (like) Zeuxis -- Zeuxis in the academy -- Women artists and the Zeuxis myth -- Painting in the philosophical brothel -- Zeuxis in the operating room: Orlan's carnal art -- Conclusion: Zeuxis selecting models and the cultural unconscious.
- Call Number
- JQF 07-975
- ISBN
- 0816647488 (hc : alk. paper)
- 9780816647484 (hc : alk. paper)
- 0816647496 (pb : alk. paper)
- 9780816647491 (pb : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006027681
- OCLC
- 71173747
- Author
- Mansfield, Elizabeth, 1965-
- Title
- Too beautiful to picture : Zeuxis, myth, and mimesis / Elizabeth C. Mansfield.
- Imprint
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-211) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JQF 07-975