Dead or alive! tracing the animation of matter in art and visual culture /

"The image is an ontological paradox; it is made of dead matter, yet appears to be alive. For centuries, artists have created images of the living world -- images that are static and yet possess the power to bring to life a frozen moment in time. While this tension has constituted a fundamental...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Borggreen, Gunhild (Editor ), Hansen, Maria Fabricius (Editor ), Tindbæk, Rosanna (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Aarhus, Denmark : Aarhus University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Life in art.
Death in art.
Image (Philosophy)
Art > Themes, motives > History.
Vie dans l'art.
Mort dans l'art.
Image (Philosophie)
Art > Thèmes, motifs > Histoire.
ART / General
Art > Themes, motives
Death in art
Life in art
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Contents
  • Dead or Alive!: Tracing the Animation of Matter in Art And Visual Culture (Rosanna Tindbæk, Gunhild Borggreen And Maria Fabricius Hansen)
  • The Principle of Life
  • The Principle of the Image
  • Chapter Summaries
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Fugitive Mirror: Art Neither Dead Nor Alive (Alexander Nagel)
  • 1. Prophecy of the Anthropocene
  • 2. The Marriage of Sulfur and Mercury
  • 3. The Butcher's Calling in the Granite
  • 4. Tree in the Shape of a Man
  • 5. Jesus Christ Neither Dead Nor Alive
  • The Most Difficult of All: The Life and Death of Italian Tomb Sculpture, c. 1280-1490(Frank Fehrenbach)
  • The Principle of Life
  • The Principle of the Image
  • Doubling
  • Life versus Death
  • Art and the Emergence of Life
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Animating The Crystalline: A Posthumanist Elaboration Of Wilhelm Worringer's Abstraktion Und Einfühlung (1907) (Jacob Wamberg)
  • Extending Worringer
  • Enter: Complexity Theory
  • Differentiation versus Order/Chaos
  • Coda: Non-Human Beginnings
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Ghosts In The Gallery: Animated Images From Rembrandt To Bendz (Mikkel Bogh)
  • Museum Outreach
  • The Hand in the Gallery Picture
  • A Ghostly Presence
  • Uncanny Picture Acts
  • A Pictorial Animation of a Scarecrow
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Living Sculptures: Natural Art And Artificial Nature In Sixteenth-Century Ornamental Frescoes (Maria Fabricius Hansen)
  • Sculpture in Painting
  • Statuesque Naturalism
  • Blurring of Borders
  • The Center of Marginality
  • Dead or Alive?
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Two Fifteenth Century Italian Death Masks: Made Of Earth And Absences (To Make Hearts Grow Fonder) (Katerina Harris)
  • Pleasing or Horrifying?
  • Monuments or Memories?
  • Frozen or Suspended?
  • Dead or Alive?
  • Absence as Subject
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • The Image As Nymph: On Affect, Animation, And Alchemical Affinities (Chris Askholt Hammeken)
  • Imaginary Breeze, Animated Accessory
  • Empathic Identification
  • Energeia and Enargeia between Image and Beholder
  • Desire: The Nymph as Threshold Being
  • Alchemical Affinities
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • A Sleeping Girl On A Silver Tray: Animate Fantasies Of Consumption In A Nineteenthcentury Still Life (Rosanna Tindbæk)
  • The Un-stillness of Still Lifes
  • The Image of Sleep between Motion and Stillness
  • The Apple of the Eye
  • Eating and Knowing
  • Muddy Materiality
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 'Catch That Monster!': Immobilization Of The Simulacrum In Cinema (Jérémie Koerin G)
  • Between Movement and Immobility
  • Back to Materiality
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Invisible Mechanics Life In Android And Robot Representations (Gunhild Borggreen)
  • Android Mechanical Figures
  • Karakuri Automata in Japan
  • Representations in Woodblock Prints
  • Androids and the Human Body
  • Convergence of Human and Non-Human
  • Lines of Desire
  • Present-day Robot Representations
  • Notes

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