Research Catalog

Title

Mirror images : reflections in art and medicine = Spiegelbilder in Kunst und Medizin / [Herausgeber, Helen Hirsch ; Exponatentexte, Alessandra Pace, Katrin Sperry ; Übersetzung, Clare Patricia O'Sullivan, Alexander Booth, Eva Martina Strobel].

Publication

Wien : VfmK Verlag für Moderne Kunst, c2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hirsch, Helen, 1963-
• Pace, Alessandra.
• Sperry, Katrin.
• Kunstmuseum Thun (Switzerland)

Description

143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm.

Summary

Mirrors extend our sense of reality by enabling us to observe our own body so they are emblematic of a separation and reconciliation between subject and object, physical and virtual. The theory of mirror neurons postulates that we possess neurons that fire both when we act and also when we see that same action being performed by others. It explains why we are capable of emulating other people's actions, which is an essential activity to the learning process, and why we empathize with members of our community, which helps preserve its cohesion. Thus, as if perspective were inverted, we, ourselves, become other people's mirrors. Exhibition: Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland (11.02.-30.04.2017).

Alternative Title

Spiegelbilder in Kunst und Medizin

Subject

Mirrors in art > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• On the occasion of an exhibition held at Kunstmuseum Thun, February 11 - April 30, 2017.
• Book has special paperback binding with only one side fixed to the book (spine not attached).

Language (note)

• Parallel texts in German and English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9783903131880
• 3903131881

LCCN

9783903131880

OCLC

982488258

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library