Body Narratives
Subtitle: Motion and Emotion in the French Enlightenment
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9782503574745
Subjects: Arts, france; Movement, aesthetics of; Affect (psychology)
Description: 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.