Wallace, Isabelle Loring. Hirsh, Jennie. text bibliography enk Farnham, Surrey Burlington, VT Ashgate c2011 2011 monographic eng

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xviii, 376 p., [16] p. of chiefly col. plates : ill. ; 26 cm. Prologue. Faraway, so close : mythic origins, contemporary art : the case of Kara Walker / Lisa Saltzman -- Myth as meaning. A poetics of becoming : the mythography of Cy Twombly / Craig G. Staff -- Art is glimpsed / Sharon Hecker -- Narcissus, narcosis, neurosis : the visions of Yayoi Kusama / Jody B. Cutler -- The porous space of Bracha L. Ettinger's Eurydices / Marisa Vigneault -- Double take, or theorizing reflection in Felix Gonzalez-Torres / Jennie Hirsh -- Myth as medium. Lichtenstein's Narcissus / Graham Bader -- Philomela as metaphor : sexuality, pornography, and seduction in the textile works of Tracey Emin and Ghada Amer / Giulia Lamoni -- Icarus returned : the falling man and the survival of antiquity / Sharon Sliwinski -- Deep shit : thoughts on Wim Delvoye's Cloaca project / Isabelle Loring Wallace -- Myth as method. A new Parrhasius : Duane Hanson's uncanny realism / Elizabeth Mansfield -- Over and over, again and again / Emma Cocker -- Video art in the House of Hades / Sophie-Isabelle Dufour -- Epilogue. The sphinx unwinds her own sweet self / Joanna Frueh. edited by Isabelle Loring Wallace and Jennie Hirsh. Includes bibliographical references and index. Art and mythology Mythology, Classical, in art Art, Modern 20th century Themes, motives Art, Modern 21st century Themes, motives N7760 .C65 2011 704.9/470904 9780754669746 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0754669742 (hardcover : alk. paper) 2010024205 DLC 100610 20170208154617.0 16276260