Too Beautiful to Picture
Zeuxis, Myth, and Mimesis
Few tales of artistic triumph can rival the story of Zeuxis. As first reported by Cicero and Pliny, the painter Zeuxis set out to portray Helen of Troy, but when he realized that a single model could not match Helen's beauty, he combined the best features of five different models. A primer on mimesis in art making, the Zeuxis myth also illustrates ambivalence about the ability to rely on nature as a model for ideal form. In Too Beautiful to Picture, Elizabeth C. Mansfield engages the visual arts, literature, and performance to examine the desire to make the ideal visible. She finds in the Zeuxis myth evidence of a cultural primal scene that m…
Mehr
CHF 33.50
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
V105:
Folgt in ca. 15 Arbeitstagen
Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8166-4749-1
- EAN: 9780816647491
- Produktnummer: 2472393
- Verlag: University Of Minnesota Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H25.4 cm x B17.8 cm x D1.5 cm 454 g
- Abbildungen: Illustrations
- Gewicht: 454
5 weitere Werke von Elizabeth C. Mansfield:
Bewertungen
Anmelden