The body aesthetic : from fine art to body modification / edited by Tobin Siebers.

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2000], ©2000.

245 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Introduction : Defining the body aesthetic / Tobin Siebers -- Postcards to Sophie Calle / Joseph Grigely -- Viewing and the viewer : empire and the culture of spectacle / Simon Goldhill -- Representing girls : modernity, cultural anxiety, and the imaginary / Richard Leppert -- Where "sleeps" are a measure of miles : physical conceptions of space and time in Inuit art / Marion Jackson -- The bride wore trousers : the life and photographs of Isabelle Raymond / Cynthia S. Greig -- The body sacrificial / Eric Gans -- Hunger artists : eating disorders and mimetic desire / René Girard -- Imagined ugliness : a history of the psychiatric response to aesthetic surgery / Sander L. Gilman -- The new art / Tobin Siebers.

Includes bibliographies.