Too beautiful to picture : Zeuxis, myth, and mimesis / / Elizabeth C. Mansfield
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| Autore: |
Mansfield Elizabeth <1965->
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| Titolo: |
Too beautiful to picture : Zeuxis, myth, and mimesis / / Elizabeth C. Mansfield
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 701 |
| Soggetto topico: | Art and mythology |
| Mimesis in art | |
| Narrative art | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-211) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Few tales of artistic triumph can rival the story of Zeuxis. As firstreported by Cicero and Pliny, the painter Zeuxis set out to portrayHelen of Troy, but when he realized that a single model could not matchHelen's beauty, he combined the best features of five different models.A primer on mimesis in art making, the Zeuxis myth also illustratesambivalence about the ability to rely on nature as a model for idealform. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Too beautiful to picture |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-9816-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815959103321 |
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