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Tracing the roots of our current obsession with body images from revolutionary France to contemporary New York, Mirzoeff argues that far from being an unchanging icon, the representation of the body has always shaped, and been shaped by, crises of political and cultural identity.
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Nicholas Mirzoeff is Associate Professor of Art History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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New York, French Revolution, Wandering Jew, American Museum of Natural History, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Herbert Lang, United States, Virgin Mary, Mary Hillier, Blind Time, Julia Margaret Cameron, Raphael's Madonna, Ancient Model, Andy Warhol, Kiki Smith, Madame Moitessier, Michel Foucault, African Reflections, Bridgeman Art Library, Jacques-Louis David, Leonardo da Vinci, Madame Bovary, Vitruvian Man, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Board of Trustees New!
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The discipline of art history rests on certain key assumptions, which are indispensable to its normal operations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, French Revolution, Wandering Jew, American Museum of Natural History, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Herbert Lang, United States, Virgin Mary, Mary Hillier, Blind Time, Julia Margaret Cameron, Raphael's Madonna, Ancient Model, Andy Warhol, Kiki Smith, Madame Moitessier, Michel Foucault, African Reflections, Bridgeman Art Library, Jacques-Louis David, Leonardo da Vinci, Madame Bovary, Vitruvian Man, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Board of Trustees New!
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- Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad on 7 pages
- Black Athena by Martin Bernal on 4 pages
- Fetishism As Cultural Discourse by Emily Apter in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism by Paul de Man on page 32, and Back Matter
- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin on page 23, and page 176
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