Human figures depicted in the arts Books

Book SynopsisFaces are everywhere in the National Gallery’s collection: in portraits and narrative scenes, in allegories and paintings of everyday life. It is often the faces shown that communicate most directly in a picture; their expressions may reveal the drama of a story, or the character of a sitter in a portrait. A Closer Look: Faces examines a wide array of fascinating faces found in paintings at the National Gallery. It explains why artists in the past created faces to look as they do, what painters through the ages have considered the "ideal" face, how faces are painted, and the reasons for the development of portrait painting. Illustrated with seventy pictures and beautiful details, this book provides an insider's view of the many faces in Western European art.Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press

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Book SynopsisCharacter Design Quarterly (CDQ) is a lively, creative magazine bringing inspiration, expert insights, and leading techniques from professional illustrators, artists, and character art enthusiasts worldwide.Each issue provides detailed tutorials on creating diverse characters, enabling you to explore the processes and decision making that go into creating amazing characters. Learn new ways to develop your own ideas, and discover from the artists what it is like to work for prolific animation studios such as Disney, Warner Bros., and DreamWorks.One of 3dtotal''s favourite contributing artists, Simone Grünewald from Germany shares her wealth of knowledge and talent with CDQ in this issue, with a beautiful cover design, an insightful interview, and an inspiring tutorial showing us how she came up with the cover artwork. Also in this issue, LA-based artist Chelsea Blecha discusses how to effectively use lighting to enhance your character designs, Rex Crowle (a video-game designer from London) shares his experience creating characters for Monkey Island, LittleBigPlanet, and more. Plus Kate Pellerin (aka Poopikat), who has over 166k followers on Instagram and lives in Toronto, Canada, reimagines the character of Alice from Alice in Wonderland in an in-depth tutorial.

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Book SynopsisThe human hand, flexible, mobile and sensitive, is a fascinating and unique part of nature. Its shape and its practical as well as social function have inspired countless artists throughout history. This book explores representations of the human hand, and the glove as its accessory of choice, in art from the 17th century until today. Richly illustrated, it offers panorama of periods and media such as drawing, printmaking, painting, video, and sculpture that demonstrates the creative and metaphorical power of the human hand as a motif in art.The essays explore the rich and varied symbolism surrounding hands and gloves, and throw new light at the work of Austrian expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka (18861980). For Kokoschka, the topic of human hands was of remarkable importance. Throughout his career, they often appear in the foreground of his works, oversized, in dynamic, active postures and as instruments of expression. They embody Kokoschka's attention to the human figure

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Book SynopsisThe 18th-century painter Johan Zoffany (1733-1810) was an astute observer of the many social circles in which he functioned as an artist. This catalogue investigates his sharp wit, shrewd political appraisal, and perceptive social commentary - all achieved while presenting his subjects as delightful and sophisticated members of polite society.Trade ReviewShortlisted for the William M. B. Berger Prize for British History, as given by the Berger Collection Educational Trust and The British Art Journal -- William M. B. Berger Prize * Berger Collection Educational Trust and The British Art Journal *

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Book SynopsisWith his graphic style, figural distortion, and defiance of conventional standards of beauty, Egon Schiele (1890–1918) was a pioneer of Austrian Expressionism and one of the most startling portrait painters of the 20th century. Mentored by Gustav Klimt, Schiele dabbled in a glittering Art Nouveau style before developing his own much more gritty and confrontational aesthetic of sharp lines, lurid shades, and mannered, elongated figures. His prolific portraits and self-portraits stunned the Viennese establishment with an unprecedented psychological and sexual intensity, favoring erotic, exposing, or unsettling poses in which he or his sitters cower on the floor, languish with legs akimbo, glower at the viewer, and thrust their genitalia into the foreground. His models are at times skeletal and sickly, at other times strong and sensual. Many contemporaries found Schiele’s work to be not only ugly but morally objectionable; in 1912, the artist was briefly imprisoned for obscenity. Today, his oeuvre is celebrated for its revolutionary approach to the human figure and for its direct and particularly fervent, almost furious brand of draftsmanship. This book presents key Schiele works to introduce his short but urgent career and his profound contribution to the development of modern art, which reaches right through to such contemporary talents as Tracey Emin and Jenny Saville.

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Book SynopsisAn essential guide to the creative process for sculpting the figure. The human figure in sculpture is a powerful form, capable of great expression and depth. Sculpting the figure in any medium is a rewarding practice, but one that can lead to some challenges. Tanya Russell, founder and principal of the Art Academy in London, details the whole creative process for sculpting the figure, from the fundamental conceptual and practical considerations through to the finished and presented work. She covers essential tools and equipment, methods for building armatures, and the processes for creating not only realistic, but also abstract and expressive figures, in a variety of styles and materials. Techniques are supported by practical exercises with step-by-step instructions and images. The book is filled with the inspiring works of contemporary sculptors, all of whom are tutors, students, or alumni of the Art Academy. Modelling and Sculpting the Figure is an essential companion for beginners and established artists alike.Trade ReviewBeautifully presented in a fairly simple format with clear and simple language. There are plenty of both colour and black and white images which are quite inspirational is themselves...This book is helpful in its focus on some universal artistic principles and approaches to sculpting the human figure. -- Mary Cousins * South Wales Potters Newsletter *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Language of Art Chapter 2: Getting Started Chapter 3: Armatures Chapter 4: The Realistic Figure Chapter 5: The Abstracted Figure Chapter 6: The Expressive Figure Chapter 7: Finishing Suppliers Acknowledgements Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA radical, lively departure from received notions about art of the Romantic period For many, the term “neoclassicism” has come to imply discipline, order, restraint, and a certain myopia. Leaving the term behind, this book radically challenges enduring assumptions about the art produced from the late 18th century to the early Victorian period, casting new light on appropriations of the classical body by British artists. It is the first to foreground the intersections of gender, race, and class in discussions of British visual classicism, laying bare artists’ alternately politicizing and emphatically sensual engagements with Greco-Roman art. Rather than rely exclusively on subsequent scholarship, the book takes up the poet John Keats (1795–1821) as a theoretical framework. Eschewing the “Golden Age” narrative, which sees J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) as the pinnacle of the period’s artistic achievement, the book examines overlooked artists, such as Henry Howard (1769–1847) and John Graham Lough (1798–1876). The result is a fresh account of underappreciated works of British painting and sculpture.Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review“Cora Gilroy-Ware mounts a refreshing, combative argument for the radical links of white marble statuary.”—Marina Warner, Times Literary Supplement 'Books of the Year'

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Book SynopsisA handy and accessibly priced take-home guide to the portrait wall in Toi Art, the best-loved and most-visited section of the Te Papa art galleries. Beautifully designed, published in te reo Māori and English, and with artist biographies and insights into conservation.Table of ContentsHe Tūtakinga, He Tūtukinga | Encounters and Collisions page 7 Mō ngā ringatoa | About the artists page 106 Kuputaka | Glossary page 110 Hei pānui anō | Further reading page 111

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Book Synopsis"Her stunning images push boundaries and feature portraits of a wonderfully diverse selection of strong, bold people of all ages, races, and body types." — Loeidela Photographie "Inspirational, feminine and colourful..." — Flair Mode Magazin "...[pays] homage to all these forms of beauty that our society struggles to recognize".—Costanza Spina, Lense Alexandra Sophie is a French artist and renowned fashion and fine art photographer. Her work is described as sensual, fresh, and feminine, often entwining humans with nature. Alexandra Sophie’s powerful and award-winning photographic work narrates stories on being human, the human being in environmental contexts — interwoven through floral themes — and explores identity through subjects such as sexuality, feminism, and interrogations on what constitutes the “normal” frontier. Alexandra’s award-winning photography has gained international recognition, featuring collaborations and covers with high-fashion clientele, such as Swarovski, Cacharel, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Elle, and Harper’s Bazaar UK, among many others; in 2018 Forbes named her as one to watch in its 30Under30 Europe profile. This highly illustrated book, which will include a preface written by Nathalie Colin (former Creative Director at Swarovski), comprises a lavish and rich portfolio of Alexandra’s photographic portraits that is inspirational, beautiful, contemporary, and colourful. Her stunning images push boundaries and feature portraits of a wonderfully diverse selection of strong, bold people of all ages, races, and body types.Trade Review"A soft collection of young women in the natural landscape that explores themes of identity, sexuality, feminism, and the social codes of “normalcy.”" - Miss Rosen, i-D"Her stunning images push boundaries and feature portraits of a wonderfully diverse selection of strong, bold people of all ages, races, and body types." - Loeidela Photographie"Inspirational, feminine and colourful; Alexandra Sophie connects in her first photo book "Flower Shower"." [Translated using Google Translate] - Flair Mode Magazin"...[pays] homage to all these forms of beauty that our society struggles to recognize". - Costanza Spina, Lense"Discover the dreamlike universe of photographer Alexandra Sophie." - Savoir Tout faire en Photographie"This cultural choice is primarily in the love of a woman's body, home, fashion, art and even those that end with passionate kisses." (Translated from Czech via Google Translate) - Haarpers CzechMarie Claire Korea featured Flower Shower in their July 2022 issue. - Marie Claire Korea"Delicate, floral and fresh." [Translated via Google Translate from French] - PHOTO Magazine

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Book SynopsisIf you could see without blinders, would the world look different?Thorns hurt, but they come with roses. Strings can tie down, but they keep kites up. People can look different, but their hearts beat more like ours than we’ll ever know. The trouble is, all of us wear blinders that make it hard to see what’s really true.Life Without Blinders . . . Is Beautiful is an inspiring, thought-provoking invitation to step out of the darkness and discover the abundant beauty hidden in this crazy, messy, wonderful world. Each spread features one of over thirty stirring questions accompanied by an image covered with a die-cut blinders window. Flip over the blinders window, and you’ll see what’s really true: Storm clouds are a chance to dance in the rain. Ashes lead to new birth. Strangers can be friends. Kindness comes from unlikely sources. And life can be more beautiful than you ever imagined.Even the jacket is a blinders page that can be removed.

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Book SynopsisThe first English-language publication of a classic French book on the relationship between the development of photography and of the medical category of hysteria.In this classic of French cultural studies, Georges Didi-Huberman traces the intimate and reciprocal relationship between the disciplines of psychiatry and photography in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the immense photographic output of the Salpetriere hospital, the notorious Parisian asylum for insane and incurable women, Didi-Huberman shows the crucial role played by photography in the invention of the category of hysteria. Under the direction of the medical teacher and clinician Jean-Martin Charcot, the inmates of Salpetriere identified as hysterics were methodically photographed, providing skeptical colleagues with visual proof of hysteria''s specific form. These images, many of which appear in this book, provided the materials for the multivolume album Iconographie photographique de la Salpetriere.As Didi-Huberman shows, these photographs were far from simply objective documentation. The subjects were required to portray their hysterical type—they performed their own hysteria. Bribed by the special status they enjoyed in the purgatory of experimentation and threatened with transfer back to the inferno of the incurables, the women patiently posed for the photographs and submitted to presentations of hysterical attacks before the crowds that gathered for Charcot''s Tuesday Lectures.Charcot did not stop at voyeuristic observation. Through techniques such as hypnosis, electroshock therapy, and genital manipulation, he instigated the hysterical symptoms in his patients, eventually giving rise to hatred and resistance on their part. Didi-Huberman follows this path from complicity to antipathy in one of Charcot''s favorite cases, that of Augustine, whose image crops up again and again in the Iconographie. Augustine''s virtuosic performance of hysteria ultimately became one of self-sacrifice, seen in pictures of ecstasy, crucifixion, and silent cries.

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Book SynopsisLearn to figure paint in watercolor with a world-renowned instructor! The Natural Way to Paint will teach you a natural approach to seeing and painting the human form in watercolor. By learning to carefully observe and capture the basic shapes and subtle nuances in human figures, you''ll be able to infuse your work with newfound life and energy. Reid begins with lessons and practical exercises in contour and gesture drawing, which will help you learn to see and capture the essence of your subject. Once you''ve established a strong foundation of drawing skills, it''s time to pick up your brush! Reid will guide you through detailed lessons on: Painting technique and color theory Moving from silhouettes to three-dimensional forms Capturing and rendering facial features Composing and designing a variety of figure paintings Packed with examples, demonstrations, and detailed assignments, The Natural Way to Paint is the ultimate guide to beautiful figure painting in watercolor.Charles Reid has long been considered a master painter. His paintings are fresh and spontaneous, displaying his profound understanding of light and color and expert drawing ability. Reid was born in Cambridge, New York, and studied art at the University of Vermont and the Art Students League of New York. He has won numerous awards, including the Childe Hassam Purchase Prize at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Academy of Design, and the American Watercolor Society. In 1980 he was elected to the National Academy of Design. Public collections of his work include Smith College, Yellowstone Art Center, Brigham Young College, Roche Corporation, and the National Academy of Design. In addition to painting, Reid teaches workshops around the world. He has written eleven books on painting in watercolor and oil.Readers interested in related titles from Charles Reid will also want to see: Flower painting in oil (ISBN: 9781626543805), Painting by Design (ISBN: 9781626543218), Painting What (You Want) to See (ISBN: 9781626543782), Pulling Your Paintings Together (ISBN: 9781626543843 ).

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Book SynopsisDiscover how to draw true-to-life human figures and poses with detailed step-by-step instructions and tips and tricks on the best drawing techniques.Grab your sketchbook, pens, and pencils and follow along as this instructional drawing guide teaches you everything you need to know about creating the most realistic human figures. With more than 150 easy-to-follow illustrations, Drawing People is the perfect guide for aspiring artists looking to develop their people-drawing skills. Start off simple with learning how to draw basic body shapes. By the end, you will have gained the anatomical knowledge you need to make your human figures as realistic as possible including learning to draw: Specific muscle groups Artistic body poses Lifelike portraits And much more! Whether you?re a beginner or a drawing pro, Drawing People is the perfect book for anyone looking to hone their technical drawing skills and take their illustrations to the next level.

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Book SynopsisThe human form, the human face, and skin tones, are three topics that beginning artists struggle to get right. This book covers these three topics. It presents a collection of ten sequences done by airbrush artists.

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Book SynopsisIn thirteen essays by leading art historians, and a critical introduction by the editor, Beyond the Yellow Badge seeks to reframe the relationship between European visual culture and the changing aspect of the Christian majority’s negative conceptions of Jews and Judaism during the Middle Ages and early modern periods. By situating their subjects within a broad continuum of historical and critical issues, the authors inquire into such questions as the shifting politics of toleration and intoleration; the role played by anti-Judaic legends in the formation of Christian cults; the role of positive evaluations of Hebrew, Jewish learning and Christian hopes for Jewish conversion; and the transformation of religious anti-Judaism into its modern racial and nationalistic counterparts. The book will be of special interest to art historians, cultural historians, students of Christian theology and Jewish history, and to educated general readers.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction PART I: STAGES OF CONVERSION Chapter One ‘Fair and Friendly, Sweet and Beautiful’: Hopes for Jewish Conversion in Synagoga’s Song of Songs Imagery Elizabeth Monroe Chapter Two Disputation in Stone: Jews Imagined on the Saint Stephen Portal of Paris Cathedral Kara Ann Morrow Chapter Three Taking Little Jesus to School in Two Thirteenth-Century Latin Psalters from South Germany Eva Frojmovic Chapter Four The Performative Terms of Jewish Iconoclasm and Conversion in Two Saint Nicholas Windows at Chartres Cathedral Anne F. Harris PART II: THE IMAGE OF THE JEW AND ITS PUBLIC Chapter Five The Passion, the Jews, and the Crisis of the Individual on the Naumburg West Choir Screen Jacqueline E. Jung37:23 PM Chapter Six Idealization and Subjection at the South Façade of Strasbourg Cathedral Nina Rowe Chapter Seven The Jews, Leviticus, and the Unclean in Medieval English Bestiaries Debra Higgs Strickland Chapter Eight Constructing the Inimical Jew in the Cantigas de Santa Maria: Theophilus’s Magician in Text and Image Pamela A. Patton Chapter Nine Images of ‘Jud Süss’ Oppenheimer, an Early Modern Jew Vivian B. Mann PART III: “THE HEBREW TRUTH” Chapter Ten Old Testament Heroes in Venetian High Renaissance Art Paul D. Kaplan Chapter Eleven Cleansing the Temple: The Munich Gruftkirche as Converted Synagogue Mitchell B. Merback Chapter Twelve New Attitudes towards the Jews in the Era of Reformation and Counter-Reformation: The Patronage of Bishop Echter von Mespelbrunn Annette Weber Chapter Thirteen Between Calvinists and Jews: Hebrew Script in Rembrandt’s Art Shalom Sabar

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Book SynopsisCe livre présente une étude historique et culturel sur l'art figuration humaine et le portrait dans un contexte islamique médiéval basé sur des sources littéraires et iconographiques. Avec: Sheila Blair; Éloïse Brac de la Perrière; Oleg Grabar; Kata Keresztely; Mika Natif; Yves Porter; Houari Touati This book presents an art historical and cultural study of human figuration and portraiture in a medieval islamic context, based on literary and iconographic sources. With contributions by: Sheila Blair; Éloïse Brac de la Perrière; Oleg Grabar; Kata Keresztely; Mika Natif; Yves Porter; Houari TouatiTrade Review"L’ouvrage apportera indéniablement au chercheur un nouvel éclairage des questions traitées et permettra de repenser divers aspects du statut et de l’histoire de la figuration humaine dans l’art islamique. Grâce au cahier iconographique, le lecteur peut suivre l’argumentation, voire vérifier certaines indications au fil de la lecture. S’il faut signaler un défaut à cet ouvrage, c’est sa relative concision. Si elle paraît constituer une garantie de la qualité des contributions sélectionnées, celles-ci ouvrent de nombreuses perspectives et soulèvent de nouvellesquestions que le lecteur curieux souhaiterait voir poursuivies au-delà de l’abondante bibliographie proposée en fin de volume". Katia Zakharia in arabica 63 (2016) 377-418. "En s’attachant à expliquer les conditions du développement et de la légitimation de l’image figurée et d’une certaine iconophilie dans la culture islamique, l’ouvrage apporte de nouveaux éléments de réflexion sur la conception de l’art islamique". Sandra Aube in Bulletin critique des annales islamologiques, 2015, 30, pp.46-48. "...the contributions made by the essays collected in this volume are numerous and manifold. They draw attention to a number of little known or unknown textual sources. They put forward a variety of opinions and attitudes regarding the image. They offer alternate perspectives and in-depth reflections on the issue of portraiture, notably highlighting the highly symbolic and essentialist character of paintings." Nourrane Ben Azzouna, University of Strasbourg.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Houari Touati Le régime des images figuratives dans la culture islamique medieval, Houari Touati Une brève histoire des portraits d’auteurs dans les manuscrits islamiques, Sheila S. Blair Réflexions préliminaires sur les portraits d’auteurs dans l’art islamique : Le cas de Moïse dans le Jāmi‘ al-Tawārīkh de Rashīd al-Dīn, Mika Natif Histoire des portraits du prophète Muḥammad, Oleg Grabar et Mika Natif Le portrait dans l’Orient musulman pré-moderne : une décantation du modèle en son essence, Yves Porter (en collaboration avec Richard Castinel) Les représentations humaines dans la peinture arabe medieval. L’exemple du Ḥarīrī-Schefer, Kata Keresztely Des idées aux images : les personnages indiens dans la miniature islamique, Éloïse Brac de la Perrière Illustrations Les auteurs Cahier iconographique

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Book SynopsisBenvenuto Cellini’s Perseus and Medusa, one of Renaissance Italy’s most complex sculptures, is the subject of this study, which proposes that the statue’s androgynous appearance is paradoxical. Symbolizing the male ruler overcoming a female adversary, the Perseus legitimizes patriarchal power; but the physical similarity between Cellini’s characters suggests the hero rose through female agency. Dr. Corretti argues that although not a surrogate for powerful Medici women, Cellini’s Medusa may have reminded viewers that Cosimo I de’ Medici’s power stemmed in part from maternal influence. Drawing upon a vast body of art and literature, Dr. Corretti concludes that Cellini and his contemporaries knew the Gorgon as a version of the Earth Mother, whose image is found in art for Medici women.Table of ContentsContents Prologue vii List of Figures xvi xviii 1 The Story of Perseus and Medusa, an Interpretation of Its Meaning, and the Topos of Decapitation 1 2 Cellini’s Perseus and Medusa : The Paradigm of Control 17 3 Renaissance Political Theory and Paradoxes of Power 57 4 The Goddess as Other and Same 92 5 The Sexual Symbolism of the Perseus and Medusa 104 6 The Public Face of Justice 109 7 Classical and Grotesque Polities 127 8 Eleonora di Toledo and the Image of the Mother Goddess 137 Conclusion 154 Bibliography 157 Index 173

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Book SynopsisThis volume deals with the enduring presence of one of Western culture's most fascinating and influential figures in ancient, modern, and postmodern art and literature: Venus/Aphrodite, the goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality. The collection, which is the first of its kind, seeks to explore Venus's significance as a figure of beauty and creativity across cultures and disciplines, engaging a range of media, theoretical approaches, and cultural perspectives. Thirteen international scholars—including Elisabeth Bronfen, Tom Conley, Laurence Rickels, and Barbara Vinken—illuminate Venus's lasting value as a multifaceted figure of the creative in Western culture, from Lucretius to Michel Serres.Trade Review“The strength of the collection is its emphasis on historical continuity: Western culture, it seems, frequently drawing on Oriental models, has always had need of a love goddess. She has just taken different forms as social contexts have evolved down the last two millennia.” - Julian Preece, Swansea University, in: Modern Language Review 111.2 (2016), pp. 534-535Table of ContentsContents Introduction GÜNTER BLAMBERGER Venus as Muse. A Contradictory Thought-Image? 9 SEBASTIAN GOTH Venus Anadyomene. The Birth of Art 15 ELIZABETH ASMIS Venus and the Passion for Renewal in Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things 41 Visual & Performing Arts JENNIFER SHAW The Figure of Venus. Rhetoric of the Ideal from Cabanel to Claude Cahun 57 JEANETTE KOHL Intra-Venus 73 Literature SEBASTIAN GOTH Venus as Muse. Toward a Poetics of Lust 121 RUDOLF DRUX “The Most Blessed Goddess” Venus as the ‘Ally’ of the Poet (in) Heinrich Heine 149 TOM CONLEY Venus Backwards. From Rimbaud to Ronsard 163 BARBARA VINKEN Nana: Venus a rebours. Paris of the Second Empire as the Return of Rome and Babylon 173 HANJO BERRESSEM The Transit of Venus 199 Film, Media, Theory LAURENCE RICKELS Venus Barbata 221 ELISABETH BRONFEN Cleopatra’s Venus 235 COLIN GARDNER Samuel Beckett’s ‘Peephole’ Venus. Re-Sexualization, The Oral Mother, and the Masochist Contract in Eh Joe, Ghost Trio, and …but the clouds… 251 PATRICIA MACCORMACK Venusian Ecosophy 265 Contributors 281

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Book SynopsisExploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices critically examines a longstanding colonial fascination with the black female body as an object of sexual desire, envy, and anxiety. Since the 2002 repatriation of the remains of Sara Baartman to post-apartheid South Africa, the interest in the figure of Black Venus has skyrocketed, making her a key symbol for the restoration of the racialized female body in feminist, anti-racist and postcolonial terms. Edited by Jorunn Gjerden, Kari Jegerstedt, and Željka Švrljuga, this volume considers Black Venus as a product of art established and potentially refigured through aesthetic practices, following her travels through different periods, geographies and art forms from Baudelaire to Kara Walker, and from the Caribbean to Scandinavia. Contributors: Kjersti Aarstein, Carmen Birkle, Jorunn Svensen Gjerden, Kari Jegerstedt, Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen, Ljubica Matek, Margery Vibe Skagen, Camilla Erichsen Skalle, Željka Švrljuga.

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Book SynopsisExploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices critically examines a longstanding colonial fascination with the black female body as an object of sexual desire, envy, and anxiety. Since the 2002 repatriation of the remains of Sara Baartman to post-apartheid South Africa, the interest in the figure of Black Venus has skyrocketed, making her a key symbol for the restoration of the racialized female body in feminist, anti-racist and postcolonial terms. Edited by Jorunn Gjerden, Kari Jegerstedt, and Željka Švrljuga, this volume considers Black Venus as a product of art established and potentially refigured through aesthetic practices, following her travels through different periods, geographies and art forms from Baudelaire to Kara Walker, and from the Caribbean to Scandinavia. Contributors: Kjersti Aarstein, Carmen Birkle, Jorunn Svensen Gjerden, Kari Jegerstedt, Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen, Ljubica Matek, Margery Vibe Skagen, Camilla Erichsen Skalle, Željka Švrljuga.

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