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Bodies we fail : productive embodiments of imperfection

Title
Bodies we fail : productive embodiments of imperfection / Jules Sturm.
Author
Sturm, Jules
Publication
  • Bielefeld : Transcript, [2014]
  • ©2014

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Description
200 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm.
Series Statement
Culture & theory
Uniform Title
Culture & theory
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: The Body in Art -- The Body in Theory -- The "Failing" Body -- 1. Reading for Monsters -- Gothic Monsters -- Reading the Monster -- Performative Reading -- Subverting Performance -- 2. Vulnerability -- Distorted Vision -- Relational Vulnerability -- Ethical Vulnerability -- A Vulnerable Aesthetic -- 3. Portraiture and Self-Loss -- Narcissus and the Loss of Self -- From Scientific Display to Artistic Self-Imaging -- Showing an Account of Oneself -- 4. Absence in Mapplethorpe's Wake -- Photography in the Face of Death -- Politics of Absence -- Productive Vision -- The Unconsciously Visible -- Modes of Becoming Image -- 5. Mirroring Age -- The Foreign Body -- Reverse Mirror Stage -- Mirrored Intimacy -- Horizontality and the Informe -- Formless Materiality.
ISBN
  • 9783837626094
  • 3837626091
  • 9783839426098 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
  • ocn892336992
  • 892336992
  • SCSB-1805603
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library