editado por Isabelle Loring Wallace, Jennie Hirsh. -- Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, 2011.

xviii, 376 p.; 25 cm.

ISBN 978-0-7546-6974-6.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.

Contenido: Introduction -- Prologue -- Faraway, so close: mythic origins, contemporary art: the case of Kara Walker -- Myth as meaning -- A poetics of becoming: the mythography of Cy Twombly -- Art is glimpsed -- Narcissus, Narcosis, Neurosis: the visions of Yakoi Kusama -- The porous space of Bracha L. Ettinger s -- Double take, or theorizing reflection in Felix Gonzalez-Torres -- Myth as medium -- Lichtenstein s narcissus -- Philomela as methapor: sexuality, pornography, and seduction in the textile works of tracey Emin and Ghada Amer -- Icarus returned: the falling man and the survival of antiquity -- Deep shit: thoughts on Wim Delvoye s cloaca project -- Myth as method -- A new parrhasius: Duane Hanson s uncanny realism -- Over and over, again and again -- Video art in the house of Hades -- Epilogue -- The sphinx unwinds her own sweet self.