- Description
- 1 online resource (xxi, 232 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Too beautiful to picture (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Too beautiful to picture (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-211) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Myth and Mimesis in western art history -- Art history as myth -- The Zeuxis myth -- Myth and Mimesis in the Renaissance -- Painting (like) Zeuxis -- Zeuxis in the academy -- Women artists and the Zeuxis myth -- Painting in the philosophical brothel -- Zeuxis in the operating room: Orlan's carnal art -- Conclusion: Zeuxis selecting models and the cultural unconscious.
- LCCN
- 2006027681
- OCLC
- ssj0000260047
- Author
Mansfield, Elizabeth, 1965-
- Title
Too beautiful to picture [electronic resource] : Zeuxis, myth, and mimesis / Elizabeth C. Mansfield.
- Imprint
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-211) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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