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The Body in Pieces Linda Nochlin

The Body in Pieces By Linda Nochlin

The Body in Pieces by Linda Nochlin


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Summary

A text taken from the Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture. The origins and developments of what is perhaps the essential characteristic of modern art - the fragmented image - is traced in this book. Works ranging from the Neo-classical movement to the present day are illustrated and analyzed.

The Body in Pieces Summary

The Body in Pieces: The Fragment as a Metaphor of Modernity by Linda Nochlin

By the end of the 18th century a sense of anxiety and crisis began to preoccupy European writers and artists in theor relationship to the past, from antiquity on, which constituted the European intellectual tradition. The grandness of that past could no longer fit into the frame of the present. Artists felt overwhelmed by the magnitude of past heroic accomplishment, its domineering influence, even of their own past accomplishment. Beginning with artists such as Fuseli, this was soon reflected in artistic representation. The partial image, the crop, fragmentation, the ruin and mutilation - all expressed nostalgia and grief for the loss of a vanished and unreclaimed totality, a utopian wholeness. Often, as a form of compensation, such feelings were expressed in deliberate destructiveness and this became the new way of seeing: the notion of the modern. The crop constituted a distinctively modern view of the world, the essence of modernity itself. This work, which is taken from the Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture, traces these developments as they have been expressed in representations of the human figure fragmented, mutilated and fetishized, by looking at work produced by artists from Neo-classicism to Romanticism and modern art, from Fuseli to the Impressionists, the Post-Impressionists, and beyond.

The Body in Pieces Reviews

* 'Nochlin is way ahead of the competition... beautifully written, with good illustrations' - The Guardian * 'Constantly suggestive and inspiring... must be considered a model of its genre' - The Art Book

About Linda Nochlin

Linda Nochlin (1931-2017) was Lila Acheson Wallace Professor Emerita of Modern Art at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts. She wrote extensively on issues of gender in art history and on 19th-century Realism. Her numerous publications include Women, Art and Power, Representing Women and Courbet, as well as the pioneering essay from 1971: `Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?'

Additional information

GOR001698653
9780500283059
0500283052
The Body in Pieces: The Fragment as a Metaphor of Modernity by Linda Nochlin
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Thames & Hudson Ltd
20010820
64
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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