Generously and variously illustrated, this volume gathers together the work of literary critics and artists, classicists, art historians, and specialists on the history of the body, who survey the strangeness and variety with which the body has given human beings form. Richard Leppert traces how the representation of little girls responds directly to the cultural anxieties of modernity. René Girard plots how starvation becomes an art form, while Eric Gans surveys the contemporary phenomenon of body modification. Sander Gilman explores aesthetic surgery as a response to human unhappiness. Simon Goldhill discovers in the Roman empire the initial stirrings of institutions that focus on the spectacle of the body, and Cynthia S. Greig provides a glimpse of what the history of photography would look like if male nudes replaced female ones. Marion Jackson details how the different physical existence of the Inuit guides the way they make art. Joseph Grigely transforms aesthetics as usual by focusing on the disabled body, while Tobin Siebers describes the traumatic appeal in both fine art and the media of wounded flesh, whether human or animal.

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http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/1358447?Search=yes&searchText=aesthetics&searchText=in&searchText=women&searchText=paintings&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Daesthetics%2Bin%2Bwomen%2Bpaintings%26amp%3Bacc%3Don%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3Bfc%3Doff

http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pub/departments/bcurj/pdf/HoltJessicaART.pdf

http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.musa.at%2Fuploads%2Fmedia%2FAnjaZimmermann_en.pdf&ei=hkKZUvT9O4mGrQegnIAQ&usg=AFQjCNHwoUNryqmwYAqeGje9fIGWdm0ybg&sig2=oybAKKi2Y3R4gcvwtixwEQ

the human body in greek art and thought

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfWd9QZfils

If anyone could get hands on this book, we could have more than enough of information: http://www.amazon.com/The-Meaning-Body-Aesthetics-Understanding/dp/0226401936

Should be a good place to start: http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/HumanForm.html