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Body criticism

Barbara Maria Stafford

1991587 pagesabout 9–13 hours
1991
first published
  • 1991MIT Press · 587 pages · ENGISBN 9780262193047
  • 1993The MIT Press · 612 pages · ENGISBN 9780262691659

A celebration of visual culture as well as a contribution to the history of the human body. It aims to explore the strategies developed in the 18th century for making visible the unseeable aspects of the world. In the process it uncovers and analyzes a set of body metaphors.

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