Identity and alterity : figures of the body 1895/1995 /
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| Meeting name: | Biennale di Venezia (46th : 1995) |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Venezia : La Biennale di Venezia : Marsilio, c1995. |
| Description: | 589 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2348718 |
Table of Contents:
- Impossible Anatomy 1895-1995: Notes of the iconography of a world of technologies / Jean Clair
- Identity and Alterity. Looking at Objects / Claude Levi-Strauss. Artists and Group Portraits / Marc Fumaroli. Loving Statues / Maurizio Bettini. Deformities of the Face / Paolo Fabbri. Behind the Mirror. Notes from the Portrait in the Twentieth Century / Gunter Metken. The Body Beside Itself / Philippe Comar. A Made-to-measure Identity / Philippe Comar. Ars moriendi: Andres Serrano / Marcel Brisebois. Portrait, Mask, Hood. Otto Dix, Jean Helion, Philip Guston / Didier Ottinger. Sacrifice. Arnulf Rainer, Rudolf Schwarzkogler and Gunter Brus: Works on the Human Body / Cathrin Pichler. Imprints of Mind and Body. The Continuity and Change of the Ancient in the Modern / Adalgisa Lugli. Il Supremo Convegno: Body and Soul / Manlio Brusatin
- Il Supremo Convegno. I. Group Portraits. From the Academy to the Cafe. II. The Age of Positivism 1895-1905. From Callimetry to Metric Anthropology. Measurement of the Body. The Body in Motion. The Criminal Body: 'Genius and Madness'. The Discovery of the Invisible. 'Sight and its Unconscious'. Invisible Radiation: x-rays, Spiritistic Phenomena. The Sacred Made Manifest: The Holy Shroud. III. The Incoherence of the Avant-garde 1905-1915. A New Norm Beyond Norms. The Demands of Expressionism. Self-portraits. From the Expressionist Image to the Abstract Icon. IV. Towards a New Man? 1915-1930. The Beauty of the Machine. 'Tempests of Steel': The Great War. 'Ars moriendi'. An Impossible 'Call to Order'. V. Totalitarian Arts and Degenerate Art 1930-1945. Images of the Leader. A Chill Beauty. Eros and the Body in parts. Surrealism and 'Convulsive' Beauty. Self-portraits in the 1930s. VI. The Post-war Period 1945-1962. The Eclipse of the Face. On the Sidelines: The Unmanageable, the Resistant. VII. The Return of the Body 1962-1985. The Turning-point 1962-1973. 'Human Clay' 1973-1985. 'Ars amandi'. A Veiled and Unveiled Face. VIII. The Real and Virtual Body 1985-1995. IX. Imprints of Body and Mind.