The artificial body in fashion and art : marionettes, models, and mannequins / Adam Geczy.

Author
Geczy, Adam [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Academic Publishing Plc, 2017.
  • ©2017
Description
xiv, 194 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

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    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formation of the self physically and psychologically, leading scholar Adam Geczy contends that the "natural" body has been replaced by a series of imaginary archetypes in our post-modern world, central to which is the figure of the doll. The Artificial Body in Fashion and Art provides a much-needed synthesis of constructed bodies across time and place, drawing on fashion theory, theatre studies and material culture, to explore what the body means in the realms of identity, gender, performance and art.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-183), filmography (pages 183-184) and index.
    Contents
    • 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
    • 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
    • Dark doubles: dolls as a solution to the fallible body : A world with no puppet master: Jean Paul ; Kleist's Über das Marionettentheatre and E.T.A. Hoffmann's Sandman ; Maeterlinck, Craig and the Über-marionette ; Rilke and the puppet
    • Between torture and transcendence: the doll in art : Bellmer: the terror of art ; Cindy Sherman and the evaporated self ; The vulnerability of fake flesh: the hyperrealist dolls of Jinks, Mueck and Piccinini
    • A model subject: the window dummy, the fashion doll and the double : Fashion dolls ; The birth of the mannequin ; Early modern modeling ; The doll standard and the modern body ; Barbie, beauty, queer
    • Extreme Hellene: sport, superheroes and the modern Übermensch : From the "normal" body to the sport body ; Male doll culture and superheroes ; Pumping iron and building a body (a)part ; Hypermasculine queer ; The anatomic shell and death: bodybuilding and AIDS
    • Genetically baroque beings: cybergender, transexuality and natrificiality : Plastic surgery ; Performing monstrosities: Orlan ; Porn, sex, dolls and the natrificial ; No need for life: RealDolls are here ; Living dolls ; The incorporated doll and the internalized fetish
    • Future postscript: shells and ghosts, bodies and souls
    • Conclusion : Between beauty and terror.
    ISBN
    • 9781472595966 (hardcover)
    • 1472595963 (hardcover)
    • 9781472595959 (paperback)
    • 1472595955 (paperback)
    LCCN
    2016012634
    OCLC
    932001584
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