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Visions of the human : art, World War I and the modernist subject /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London :
I.B. Tauris,
2015.
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| Series: | International library of modern and contemporary art ;
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations Introduction [4319] 6Chapter One: New Visions of the Human [24974]Introduction 21Vision and Knowledge 26Cultural Encoding 33The 'Crisis of the Subject' 43Cubist Perceptions 50The Bionomic of Body and Environment 71Cubism, Phenomena and Intersubjectivity 77Chapter Two: The Simultaneous Subject [20862] Introduction 90Colour, Form, and Memory 99Simultaneous Materiality 104La Prose du Transsibérien 110Vision and the Fourth Dimension 113La Robe Simultanée 130Chapter Three: Rationalised Existence [16555]Introduction: Cubism After the War 142The Cubist Rhizome 145The European Avant-Garde 152Oskar Schlemmer and Rationalised Cubism 155Schlemmer's Bodies 161Man in Space 168The Figure of Reactionary Modernism 174The Monumental Body 185 Chapter Four: Modernity's Vitruvian Bodies [9638]Introduction: Vitruvian Men 190Rudolph Laban's Icosahedron 197The Kinesphere 203Cybernetic Bodies 209Le Corbusier, the Body, and the 'Mass Ornament' 215The Geometry of Utopia 220Le Modulor 235Conclusion: From n-Dimensional Imagination to One Dimensional Man [9294] 239[Total approx. 85000 words - exc. Bibliography & endnotes] Endnotes 264Bibliography 289.