The Perfectible Body

The Western Ideal of Physical Development

• Author(s): Kenneth R. Dutton,
• Publisher: Cassell
• Pages: 400
• ISBN_10: 0304332305
  ISBN_13: 9780304332304
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Photography / Subjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies , Social Science / Men's Studies ,

Description:... This book explores and re-evaluates the traditional muscular hero-figure and the origins of the western ideal of a perfectible body, developed from the pagan bodily ideals of ancient Greece. It illustrates the evolution of this ideal into the visual language of bodybuilders and strippers.