Title: Body Narratives
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.
Subjects: Arts, france, Movement, aesthetics of, Affect (psychology), Art, History, Aesthetics of Movement