Author: K. R. Dutton
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN: 9780304332304
Category : Body, Human
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book 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.