In Response to Echo: Beyond Mimesis or Dissolution as Scopic Regime (with Special Attention to Camouflage)

By Barbara Baert

In his Metamorphoses, Ovid (43 BC - AD 17) tells the story of Echo and Narcissus. Echo's love for Narcissus ended in a cruel twist of fate. This essay treats the impact of Echo on art history through the lenses of gender, speech and hearing; Echo as textilization and sacrifice; Echo as chthonic art; and, finally, Echo and le desir mi

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042933461
• ISBN13: 9789042933460
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 9.4"