| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 250 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Images of the Body; The Imbued Agency of Performer Driven Narratives in Telematic Environments; Presence and Presentness in Performative Media Art; Panoptic Options; From Please Turn to "Please Don't Touch"; Beyond Virtual Bodies: A New Frontier?; Part II: Body and images; Mat Chivers; Imaginary Bodies and Scenic Presence; The Body as a "Secular Sacred" Space in Ritual Theatre; Palaces, Stars and Abeceda; The Body of the Empathic Spectator; I Have Weight; Contributors |
| Summary |
The book comprises a series of contributions by international scholars and practitioners from different backgrounds researching in the fields of contemporary visual culture and performance studies. This collection addresses the issue of corporeality as a discursive field (which asks for a ""poetics""), and the possible ways in which technology affects and is affected by the body in the context of recent artistic and theoretical developments. The common denominator of the contributions here is their focus on the relationship between body and image expressed as the connection between reality and |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Human figure in art.
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Human beings in art.
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History of art -- art & design styles.
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Theory of art.
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Installation art.
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ART -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
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Human figure in art
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Avram, Horea, editor
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| ISBN |
9781527514959 |
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1527514951 |
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