Contemporary art and classical myth / edited by Isabelle Loring Wallace and Jennie Hirsh.
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TextPublication details: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011Description: xviii, 376 p., [16] p. of chiefly col. plates : ill. ; 26 cmISBN: 9780754669746 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0754669742 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Art and mythology | Mythology, Classical, in art | Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Themes, motives | Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Themes, motivesDDC classification: 704.9/470904 LOC classification: N7760 | .C65 2011| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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MACHAKOS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Technical section | N 7760 .C65 2011 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 35013 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue. Faraway, so close : mythic origins, contemporary art : the case of Kara Walker / Lisa Saltzman -- Myth as meaning. A poetics of becoming : the mythography of Cy Twombly / Craig G. Staff -- Art is glimpsed / Sharon Hecker -- Narcissus, narcosis, neurosis : the visions of Yayoi Kusama / Jody B. Cutler -- The porous space of Bracha L. Ettinger's Eurydices / Marisa Vigneault -- Double take, or theorizing reflection in Felix Gonzalez-Torres / Jennie Hirsh -- Myth as medium. Lichtenstein's Narcissus / Graham Bader -- Philomela as metaphor : sexuality, pornography, and seduction in the textile works of Tracey Emin and Ghada Amer / Giulia Lamoni -- Icarus returned : the falling man and the survival of antiquity / Sharon Sliwinski -- Deep shit : thoughts on Wim Delvoye's Cloaca project / Isabelle Loring Wallace -- Myth as method. A new Parrhasius : Duane Hanson's uncanny realism / Elizabeth Mansfield -- Over and over, again and again / Emma Cocker -- Video art in the House of Hades / Sophie-Isabelle Dufour -- Epilogue. The sphinx unwinds her own sweet self / Joanna Frueh.
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