Additional Author:
Wallace, Isabelle Loring.
Publisher:Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011.
Description:xviii, 376 p., [16] p. of chiefly col. plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Prologue. Faraway, so close : mythic origins, contemporary art : the case of Kara Walker / Lisa Saltzman -- Myth as meaning. A poetics of becoming : the mythography of Cy Twombly / Craig G. Staff -- Art is glimpsed / Sharon Hecker -- Narcissus, narcosis, neurosis : the visions of Yayoi Kusama / Jody B. Cutler -- The porous space of Bracha L. Ettinger's Eurydices / Marisa Vigneault -- Double take, or theorizing reflection in Felix Gonzalez-Torres / Jennie Hirsh -- Myth as medium. Lichtenstein's Narcissus / Graham Bader -- Philomela as metaphor : sexuality, pornography, and seduction in the textile works of Tracey Emin and Ghada Amer / Giulia Lamoni -- Icarus returned : the falling man and the survival of antiquity / Sharon Sliwinski -- Deep shit : thoughts on Wim Delvoye's Cloaca project / Isabelle Loring Wallace -- Myth as method. A new Parrhasius : Duane Hanson's uncanny realism / Elizabeth Mansfield -- Over and over, again and again / Emma Cocker -- Video art in the House of Hades / Sophie-Isabelle Dufour -- Epilogue. The sphinx unwinds her own sweet self / Joanna Frueh.
