Synopses & Reviews
This newest addition to the Museum's popular
Looking At series provides definitions of the technical terms most often encountered by museum-goers and student of post-antique European sculpture. The book enhances the appreciation of the art form by explaining the methods used in creating sculpture and the terms used by scholars to describe it.
Featured are clear, concise explanations to questions such as: What is a socle? What are the steps in bronze casting? What is contrapposto? Written for the non-specialist and lavishly illustrated with objects from the Getty Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, this book is invaluable to anyone who wants to learn more about the art of sculpture.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
List of Illustrations
Part 1: Reading the Mind
1. Physiognomy
2. Phrenology
3. Mesmerism
Part 2: The Unconscious and the Workings of Memory
5. Associationism and Physiological Psychology
6. Dreams
7. Double Consciousness
8. Memory
Part 3: The Sexual Body
9. Defining Womanhood
10. The Uterine Economy
11. Masculinity and the Control of Sexuality
Part 4: Insanity and Nervous Disorders
12. Moral Management and the Rise of the Psychiatrist
13. Monomania, Moral Insanity, and Moral Responsibility
Part 5: Heredity, Degeneration, and Modern Life
14. Nervous Economies: Modernity and Morbidity
15. Concepts of Descent and Degeneration
16. Inherited Legacies: Idiocy and Criminality
17. Childhood
18. Race and Hybridity
19. Sex in Mind and Education
Notes on Authors
Bibliography