Too beautiful to picture :

Mansfield, Elizabeth, 1965-

Too beautiful to picture : Zeuxis, myth, and mimesis / Elizabeth C. Mansfield. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007. - xxi, 232 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-211) and index.

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.

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Zeuxis, active 5th century B.C.


Art and mythology.
Mimesis in art.
Narrative art.

N7760 / .M26 2007

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