The Body and the Arts

302 Pages·2009·6.904 MB·English

by  C Saunders, U Maude, J Macnaughton (eds.)

The Body and the Arts
Also by Corinne Saunders
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BECKETT, TECHNOLOGY AND THE BODY
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The Body and the Arts
Edited by
Corinne Saunders, Ulrika Maude
and
Jane Macnaughton
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To our parents,
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and Margaret-Ann and Callum Macnaughton
Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgements xi
Notes on the Contributors xii
Introduction 1
Corinne Saunders, Ulrika Maude and Jane Macnaughton
Part I Thinking the Body
1 Polyclitus among the Philosophers: Canons
of Classical Beauty 11
George Boys-Stones
2 Body as Graced or Vile: Tensions in the Christian Vision 25
David Brown
3 The Smoke of the Soul: Anatomy, Medical Spirits and
the Rete Mirabile: 1538–1643 39
Richard Sugg
4 The Fizziness Business 55
Steven Connor
5 Flesh Revealed: Medicine, Art and Anatomy 72
Jane Macnaughton
Part II Writing the Body
6 The Affective Body: Love, Virtue and Vision in
English Medieval Literature 87
Corinne Saunders
7 Victorian Literature and Bringing the Body Back
from the Dead 103
Francis O’Gorman
8 Modernist Bodies: Coming to Our Senses 116
Ulrika Maude
9 Writing the Body: Modernism and Postmodernism 131
Patricia Waugh
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viii Contents
10 Detective Fiction and the Body 148
P. D. James (in conversation with Corinne Saunders)
Part III Viewing the Body
11 Pygmalion, Painted Flesh, and the Female Body 165
Martin Postle
12 Satyrs, Spiders, Jellyfish, and Mutants:
Ovidian Metamorphosis in Contemporary Art 186
Marina Warner
13 Body, Space, Time 209
Antony Gormley
14 Une écriture corporelle: The Dancer in
the Text of Mallarmé and Yeats 237
Susan Jones
15 The Erotic and the Sacred Body in Opera:
The Venusberg to Monsalvat – and Beyond 254
David Fuller
16 Celluloid Formaldehyde? The Body on Film 270
Judith Buchanan
Index 287
Illustrations
1.1 Polyclitus, Doryphoros, ‘The Canon’ (Roman copy)
after Polyclitus (fifth century BC) 12
2.1 Giovanni Bernini, Death of the Blessed Ludovica
Albertoni (1674) 30
2.2 T he Angel with a Smile, Cathedral of Notre Dame,
Reims, France (thirteenth century) 33
5.1 G roup of seventeen students at dissecting table
with cadaver, Postcard (c. 1910) 74
5.2 Operations T-shirt: ‘Incisions’ (c. 2000) 77
5.3 Christine Borland, Bullet Proof Breath (2001) 80
11.1 W illiam Etty, Cleopatra’s Arrival in Cilicia (1821) 166
11.2 T homas Rowlandson, The Modern Pygmalion
(after 1811) 171
11.3 W alter Richard Sickert, La Hollandaise (c. 1906) 177
11.4 Francis Bacon, version no. 2 of Lying Figure with
a Hypodermic Syringe (1968) 180
11.5 J enny Saville, Rubens’ Flap (1999) 182
12.1 K iki Smith, Harpie (2002) 190
12.2 A nish Kapoor, Marsyas (2002) 193
12.3 Louise Bourgeois, Maman (1999) 200
12.4 D orothy Cross, Medusae (2001–2003) 203
13.1 A ntony Gormley, Full Bowl (1977–1978) 210
13.2 A ntony Gormley, Three Ways: Mould (1981) 211
13.3 A ntony Gormley, Three Ways: Mould, Hole and
Passage (1981) 212
13.4 A ntony Gormley, Three Ways: Hole (1981) 213
13.5 Antony Gormley, Three Ways: Passage (1981) 214
13.6 A ntony Gormley, Land, Sea and Air II (1982) 215
13.7 A ntony Gormley, Room for the Great Australian
Desert (1989) 216
13.8 A ntony Gormley, Room II (1987) 217
13.9 A ntony Gormley, Allotment II (1996) 218
13.10 A ntony Gormley, Drawn (2000) 219
13.11–13.15 A ntony Gormley, Total Strangers (1996) 221–23
13.16–13.18 A ntony Gormley, Another Place (1997) 224–26
13.19 A ntony Gormley, Exercise Between Blood and
Earth (1979–1981) 226
13.20 Antony Gormley, Still Running (1990–1993) 227
13.21 A ntony Gormley, Body (1991–1993) 228
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x Illustrations
13.22 Antony Gormley, Insider I (1997) 229
13.23 & 13.24 Antony Gormley, Inside Australia (2002–2003) 231
13.25 Antony Gormley, Bodies in Space V (2001) 232
13.26 A ntony Gormley, Transfuser I (2002) 232
13.27 Antony Gormley, Quantum Cloud (2000) 233
13.28 Antony Gormley, Domain Field (2003) 234
13.29 Antony Gormley, Feeling Material XIII (2004) 235
13.30 Antony Gormley, Clearing I (2004) 236
14.1 Loïe Fuller in ‘La Danse Blanche’ (c. 1898) 238
15.1 Kirsten Flagstad as Kundry in Wagner’s Parsifal 264
16.1 The Sideshow Wrestlers (Conseil de Pipelet ou un
Tour à la Foire, 1908) 275
16.2 The Wizard of Oz (MGM: Victor Fleming, 1939) 280
16.3 Possessed (MGM: Clarence Brown, 1931) 282
16.4 Rear Window (Paramount: Hitchcock, 1954) 284