Body narratives : motion and emotion in the French Enlightenment
Type
Bibliographic
Edition
Year
2017
TOC
Summary
This book explores, in broad terms, the representations and understandings of the body's physical and psychological movement's meanings during the French Enlightenment in its many guises --artistic, esthetic, social, and erotic. It is centered on the fundamental tension between stasis and movement, which is both constitutive of art historical reflection and embedded in the body's existence