Cover of Pictures of the Body

Pictures of the Body

by James Elkins

1999 352 pages eng

"In a wide-ranging argument moving from Sumerian demons to Lucian Freud, from Syriac prayer books to John Carpenter's film The Thing, this book explores the ways the body has been represented through time. A response to the vertiginous increase in writings on bodily representations, it attempts to f…

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