"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formation of the self physically and psychologically, leading scholar Adam Geczy contends that the "natural" body has been replaced by a series of imaginary archetypes in our post-modern world, central to which is the figure of the doll.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."-- Résumé de l'éditeur

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Geczy, Adam

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Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PIc

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Methuen Drama

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

London bBloomsbury Academic, 2017

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类型: 图书

出版日期: 2017

出版社: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PIc

页码: 194

Cover page 1
Halftitle page 2
Praise page 3
Title page 4
Copyright page 5
Dedication 6
TABLE OF CONTENTS 8
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 12
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 16
INTRODUCTION 18
1 CLOTHES OF CARNIVAL: PERSONAL PUPPETEERING AND ROLE PLAY 32
Precursors: Atellan farce 36
Pulchinello and Punch 40
Commedia clowns and the mind-body problem 42
Representations of the commedia dell’arte in art 46
2 A SOUL IN CONTROL: THE ART OF THE AUTOMATON 48
Early automata 49
Pygmalion and Pygmalionism 51
Vaucanson 53
The art of automata 58
The chess-playing Turk 61
The end of a fantasy, the beginning of a contrivance 64
3 DARK DOUBLES: DOLLS AS A SOLUTION TO THE FALLIBLE BODY 68
A world with no puppet master: Jean Paul 70
Kleist’s Über das Marionettentheatre and E. T A. Hoffmann’s Sandman 71
Maeterlinck, Craig and the Über- marionette 77
Rilke and the puppet 80
4 BETWEEN TORTURE AND TRANSCENDENCE: THE DOLL IN ART 84
Bellmer: The terror of art 88
Cindy Sherman and the evaporated self 92
The vulnerability of fake fl esh: The hyperrealist dolls of Jinks, Mueck and Piccinini 96
5 A MODEL SUBJECT: THE WINDOW DUMMY, THE FASHION DOLL AND THE DOUBLE1 106
Fashion dolls 107
The birth of the mannequin 113
Early modern modeling 115
The doll standard and the modern body 118
Barbie, beauty, queer 119
6 EXTREME HELLENE: SPORT, SUPERHEROES AND THE MODERN ÜBERMENSCH 124
From the “normal” body to the sport body 125
Male doll culture and superheroes 128
Pumping iron and building a body (a)part 130
Hypermasculine queer 133
The anatomic shell and death: Bodybuilding and AIDS 135
7 GENETICALLY BAROQUE BEINGS: CYBERGENDER, TRANSEXUALITY AND NATRIFICIALITY 136
Plastic surgery 137
Performing monstrosities: Orlan 141
Porn, sex, dolls and the natrifi cial 145
No need for life: RealDolls are here 148
Living dolls 150
The incorporated doll and the internalized fetish 153
8 FUTURE POSTSCRIPT: SHELLS AND GHOSTS, BODIES AND SOULS 156
CONCLUSION: BETWEEN BEAUTY AND TERROR 164
NOTES 168
BIBLIOGRAPHY 190
INDEX 202

"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."-- Résumé de l'éditeur

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