Dead or alive! : tracing the animation of matter in art and visual culture / edited by Gunhild Borggreen, Maria Fabricius Hansen, Rosanna Tindbæk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Borggreen, Gunhild.

Hansen, Maria Fabricius.

Tindbæk, Rosanna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life in art.

Art--History.

Art.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

425 pages (some folded) : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 26 x 21 cm

Other Title:

Tracing the animation of matter in art and visual culture

Place of Publication:

Aarhus N : Aarhus University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"The image is an ontological paradox; it is made of dead matter, yet appears to be alive. For centuries, artists have created images of the living world? images that are static and yet possess the power to bring to life a frozen moment in time. While this tension has constituted a fundamental challenge for as long as theories on the nature of images have existed, recent scholarship has rekindled interest in the question of what images?do to us?. Despite the rational discourse of Modernity, we must acknowledge that we view images as half-living entities.00'Dead or Alive!' addresses the perpetual relevance of images? enigmatic life-likeness. Each of the twelve chapters, written by scholars of art history and visual culture, conveys how the materiality of images generates this powerful effect of animation. Covering a wide range of practices, from early paleolithic stone engravings, medieval tomb sculpture, renaissance death masks and baroque painting to modern fashion, park design, early cinema, robots and bio art, the book demonstrates that the ontological paradox of the image is not limited to a specific historical period or certain types of images, but can be seen throughout the history of images across different cultures."--Publisher's description.

The image is an ontological paradox; it is made of dead matter, yet appears to be alive. For centuries, artists have created images of the living world? images that are static and yet possess the power to bring to life a frozen moment in time. While this tension has constituted a fundamental challenge for as long as theories on the nature of images have existed, recent scholarship has rekindled interest in the question of what images?do to us?. Despite the rational discourse of Modernity, we must acknowledge that we view images as half-living entities.00'Dead or Alive!' addresses the perpetual relevance of images? enigmatic life-likeness. Each of the twelve chapters, written by scholars of art history and visual culture, conveys how the materiality of images generates this powerful effect of animation. Covering a wide range of practices, from early paleolithic stone engravings, medieval tomb sculpture, renaissance death masks and baroque painting to modern fashion, park design, early cinema, robots and bio art, the book demonstrates that the ontological paradox of the image is not limited to a specific historical period or certain types of images, but can be seen throughout the history of images across different cultures.

Contents:

Dead or alive! : tracing the animation of matter in art and visual culture / Rosanna Tindbæk, Gunhild Borggreen and Maria Fabricius Hansen

Fugitive mirror : art neither dead nor alive / Alexander Nagel

The most difficult of all : the life and death of Italian tomb sculpture, c. 1280-1490 / Frank Fehrenbach

Animating the crystalline : a posthumanist elaboration of Wilhelm Worringer's Abstraktion und Einfühlung (1907) / Jacob Wamberg

Ghosts in the gallery : animated images from Rembrandt to Bendz / Mikkel Bogh

Living sculptures : natural art and artificial nature in sixteenth-century ornamental frescoes / Maria Fabricius Hansen

Two fifteenth-century Italian death masks : made of earth and absences (to make hearts grow fonder) / Katerina Harris

The image as nymph : on affect, animation, and alchemical affinities / Chris Askholt Hammeken

A sleeping girl on a silver tray : animate fantasies of consumption in a nineteenth-century still life / Rosanna Tindbæk

'Catch that monster!' : immobilization of the simulacrum in cinema / Jérémie Koering

Invisible mechanics : life in android and robot representations / Gunhild Borggreen

Fashion bodies : swinging between the animate and the inanimate / Franziska Bork Petersen

A contemporary paragone : staging aliveness and moist media / Jens Hauser.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9788771843514

8771843515

OCLC:

1129258293