The art of the body : antiquity and its legacy /

The classical human body is perhaps the single most important and wide-ranging legacy bequeathed to the modern world by antiquity. Not only has it directed the evolutionary trajectory of western art, it has also saturated almost every aspect of the contemporary subconscious, as ideal, anti-type and...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Squire, Michael
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
Series:	Ancients and moderns series.
Subjects:	Human beings in art > Psychological aspects. Art, Classical. Art and society. Civilization, Modern > Classical influences.