The Artificial Body in Fashion and Art : Marionettes, Models and Mannequins.

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Artificial bodies constructed in human likeness, from uncanny automatons to mechanical dolls, have long played a complex and subtle role in human identity and culture. This book takes a range of these bodies, from antiquity to the present day, to explore how we seek out echoes, caricatures and repli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Geczy, Adam
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016.
Temas:
Human beings in art.
Human body > Social aspects.
Human body in popular culture.
Dolls > Symbolic aspects.
Mannequins (Figures)
Mannequins (Figures) in art.
Corps humain > Aspect social.
Corps humain dans la culture populaire.
Mannequins dans l'art.
Dolls > Symbolic aspects
Human beings in art
Human body in popular culture
Human body > Social aspects
Mannequins (Figures) in art
Automat
Künstlicher Mensch
Kunst
Mode
Puppe
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover page; Halftitle page; Praise page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 CLOTHES OF CARNIVAL: PERSONAL PUPPETEERING AND ROLE PLAY; Precursors: Atellan farce; Pulchinello and Punch; Commedia clowns and the mind-body problem; Representations of the commedia dell'arte in art; 2 A SOUL IN CONTROL: THE ART OF THE AUTOMATON; Early automata; Pygmalion and Pygmalionism; Vaucanson; The art of automata; The chess-playing Turk; The end of a fantasy, the beginning of a contrivance.
  • 3 DARK DOUBLES: DOLLS AS A SOLUTION TO THE FALLIBLE BODYA world with no puppet master: Jean Paul; Kleist's Über das Marionettentheatre and E.T A. Hoffmann's Sandman; Maeterlinck, Craig and the Über- marionette; Rilke and the puppet; 4 BETWEEN TORTURE AND TRANSCENDENCE: THE DOLL IN ART; Bellmer: The terror of art; Cindy Sherman and the evaporated self; The vulnerability of fake fl esh: The hyperrealist dolls of Jinks, Mueck and Piccinini; 5 A MODEL SUBJECT: THE WINDOW DUMMY, THE FASHION DOLL AND THE DOUBLE1; Fashion dolls; The birth of the mannequin; Early modern modeling.
  • The doll standard and the modern bodyBarbie, beauty, queer; 6 EXTREME HELLENE: SPORT, SUPERHEROES AND THE MODERN ÜBERMENSCH; From the "normal" body to the sport body; Male doll culture and superheroes; Pumping iron and building a body (a)part; Hypermasculine queer; The anatomic shell and death: Bodybuilding and AIDS; 7 GENETICALLY BAROQUE BEINGS: CYBERGENDER, TRANSEXUALITY AND NATRIFICIALITY; Plastic surgery; Performing monstrosities: Orlan; Porn, sex, dolls and the natrifi cial; No need for life: RealDolls are here; Living dolls; The incorporated doll and the internalized fetish.
  • 8 FUTURE POSTSCRIPT: SHELLS AND GHOSTS, BODIES AND SOULSCONCLUSION: BETWEEN BEAUTY AND TERROR; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

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