Körper der Kunst, Körper der Medizin

Ästhetik und Physiologie im 19. Jahrhundert

By (author) Kassandra Nakas

Book cover: Körper der Kunst, Körper der Medizin

Extent: 324 pages

Publisher: Brill | Fink

Subjects: Art & Art History, French Studies, Nineteenth-Century Studies

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(April 2023)

ISBN: 9783770567614

6.1 x 9.25 inches

Price: $148.00

In stock

In 19th century French art, the ideal of aesthetic liveliness gave way to anti-illusionism and aesthetic materialism; the image of the human body was subject to radical change. This book examines how the materialistic and deterministic conceptions of man (and his body) in nascent French physiology informed this development and how artists confronted it – by creating new images of the body.

  • By (author) Kassandra Nakas