The Artificial Body in Fashion and A...
Geczy, Adam

 

  • The Artificial Body in Fashion and Art :Marionettes, Models and Mannequins /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 704.942
    書名/作者: The Artificial Body in Fashion and Art : : Marionettes, Models and Mannequins // by Adam Geczy
    作者: Geczy, Adam
    出版者: London : : Bloomsbury Publishing,, 2016
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (233 pages)
    標題: Human beings in art
    標題: Human body - Dictionaries. - Social aspects
    標題: Human body in popular culture
    標題: Dolls - Symbolic aspects
    標題: Mannequins (Figures)
    標題: Mannequins (Figures) in art
    ISBN: 9781472595973
    ISBN: 1472595971
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-183), filmography (pages 183-184) and index
    內容註: 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
    摘要、提要註: 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 replications of ourselves in order to make sense of the complex world in which we live. Packed with case studies, from the commedia del'arte to Hans Bellmer, and the work of Andre Courreges to the 1980s supermodel, this volume explores the divide between the "real" and the constructed. Arguing that the body "other" plays a crucial role in the formation of the self physically and psychologically, leading scholar Adam Geczy contends that the "natural" body has been replaced by a series of imaginary archetypes in our post-modern world, central to which is the figure of the doll
    電子資源: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/dyu/detail.action?docID=4592619
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