The Body as Medium and Metaphor

Resource Information

The work The Body as Medium and Metaphor represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Massey University Library, University of New Zealand. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The Body as Medium and Metaphor

Creator

• Westley, Hannah

Subject

• French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Self-portraits -- France
• Autobiography
• Art and literature -- France -- History -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

Reconsidering the relationship between autobiography and self-portraiture, The Body as Medium and Metaphor explores the intertextuality of self-representation in twentieth-century French art. Situating the body as the nexus of intersections between the written word and the visual image, this book rethinks the problematic status of the self. Starting at the twentieth-century's departure from figurative and mimetic representation, this study discusses the work of seminal artists and writers - including Marcel Duchamp, Michel Leiris, Francis Bacon, Bernard Noël, Gisèle Prassinos, Louise Bourgeois

Member of

• Faux Titre, 312

Dewey number

840.90091

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Faux Titre, 312

Series volume

v. v. 312