Title: Binding the absent body in medieval and modern art : abject, virtual, and alternate bodies /
Authors: Kelley, Emily D.,; Rivenbark, Elizabeth Richards,
Year: 2017
Subjects: Human beings in art; Human body Symbolic aspects; Human beings in art.; Human body Symbolic aspects
Contents: 1. Blood, sweat, tears, and milk: "Fluid veneration, sensory contact, and corporeal presence in medieval devotional art / Vibeke Olson -- 2. "No living presence": human absence in the early work of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg / Rebekah Scoggins -- 3. Maria Ecclesia: The Aachen Marienschrein as an alternate body for the Virgin Mary / Lisa Victoria Ciresi -- 4. Drawn to scale: the medieval monastic's virtual pilgrimage through sacred measurement / Natalie M. Mandziuk -- 5. Cloth as a sign of the absent body in American sculpture from the 1960s / Elizabeth Richards Rivenbank -- 6. Imagining the sorrows of death and pains of hell in the Hours of Catherine of Cleves / Jennifer M. Feltman -- 7. The absent body as divine reflection in Parmigianino's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror / Margaret A. Morse -- 8. A clear preoccupation with death: the absent body in Mark Rothko's mature style / Michael R. Smith, Jr.