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Item Number: 108978
Title: Contemporary Art and Classical Myth
Author: Loring Wallace, Isabella et al (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780754669746
Description: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. 24cm., hardcover, 410pp., 16 color, 64 b&w illus. Contents: Introduction, Isabelle Loring Wallace and Jennie Hirsh; Prologue: Faraway, so close; mythic origins, contemporary art: the case of Kara Walker, Lisa Saltzman. Section I 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. Section II 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. Section III 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. Section IV Epilogue: The Sphinx unwinds her own sweet self, Joanna Frueh; Bibliography.

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