Body image and identity in contemporary societies : psychoanalytic, social, cultural and aesthetic perspectives / edited by Ekaterina Sukhanova and Hans-Otto Thomashoff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sukhanova, Ekaterina, editor.

Thomashoff, Hans-Otto, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Body image.

Identity (Psychology).

Physical Description:

xi, 138 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hove, East Sussex ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Contents:

From the editors

How the brain creates art and dreams / Thomashoff, Hans-Otto

Norm(s) and functions in outside art / Sukhanova, Ekaterina

Body and identity objects of redemption in today's unrest / Christaki, Angelique

Contemporary body : medicine to modern art / Potier, Romy

. physical disability in the collective imagination / Ebenstein, William

The disabled body in contemporary society / Korff -ausse, Simone

Body image and identity in victims of extreme violence / Waintrater, Regine

The body and aids transformed into a work of art by Herv Guibert / Brun, Anne

The "composite body" in contemporary art / Desprats-Pequignot, Catherine

The multiple bodies of Michael Jackson, a paradigm for understanding postmodern society? / Schauder, Silke

From catharsis to the cathartic : towards a post-dramatic theory of representation / Mattos, Renata and Vives, Jean-Michel

Modified images of the body : new forms of identity with a note on the cadavers of Gunter von Hagens / Masson, Coline

Of beauty and "beauties" : female identities and body image in Colombia / Forero Pena, Alcira

Tatoos/hysteria / Wolff Bernstein, Jeanne

Body in art and art therapy : humorous presentations notes on the contributors / Kopytin, Alexander

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415742900

0415742900

9780415742917

0415742919

OCLC:

890462511