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Too beautiful to picture: Zeuxis, myth, and mimesis

Elizabeth Mansfield
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Introduction (page xi)
  • PART I. MYTH AND MIMESIS IN WESTERN ART HISTORY
    • 1. Art History as Myth (page 3)
    • 2. The Zeuxis Myth (page 19)
    • 3. Myth and Mimesis in the Renaissance (page 39)
  • PART II. PAINTING (LIKE) ZEUXIS
    • 4. Zeuxis in the Academy (page 57)
    • 5. Women Artists and the Zeuxis Myth (page 75)
    • 6. Painting in the Philosophical Brothel (page 103)
    • 7. Zeuxis in the Operating Room: Orlan's Carnal Art (page 135)
  • Conclusion: Zeuxis Selecting Models and the Cultural Unconscious (page 153)
  • Notes (page 169)
  • Index (page 213)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
LEO 41.2 (2008): 187-188 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20206562
Citable Link
Published: c2007
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780816647484 (hardcover)
  • 9780816698165 (ebook)
  • 9780816647491 (paper)
Subject
  • Art History
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