Bodies of stone in the media, visual culture and the arts / edited by Alessandra Violi, Barbara Grespi, Andrea Pinotti, Pietro Conte.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Violi, Alessandra, 1963- editor.

Grespi, Barbara, editor.

Pinotti, Andrea, editor.

Conte, Pietro, 1977- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human figure in art.

Statues in art.

Stone in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020.

Summary:

If mediatization has surprisingly revealed the secret life of inert matter and the 'face of things', the flipside of this has been the petrification of living organisms, an invasion of stone bodies in a state of suspended animation. Within a contemporary imaginary pervaded by new forms of animism, the paradigm of death looms large in many areas of artistic experimentation, pushing the modern body towards mineral modes of being which revive ancient myths of flesh-made-stone and the issue of the monument. Scholars in media, visual culture and the arts propose studies of bodies of stone, from actors simulating statues to the transmutation of the filmic body into a fossil; from the real treatment of the cadaver as a mineral living object to the rediscovery of materials such as wax; from the quest for a thermal" equivalence between stone and flesh to the transformation of the biomedical body into a living monument."

Contents:

Introduction. Learning from stone / Alessandra Violi, Barbara Grespi, Andrea Pinotti and Pietro Conte

Theatre and memory: the body-as-statue in early modern culture / Greta Perletti

Translated bodies: a 'cartographic' approach / Silvia Romani

Pantomime in stone: performance of the pose and animal camouflage / Barbara Grespi

Animated statues and petrified bodies : a journey inside fantasy cinema / Michele Bertolini

The ephemeral cathedral : bodies of stone and configurations of film / Vinzenz Hediger

Bodies that matter: miniaturisation and the origin(s) of 'art' / Michele Cometa

Brancusi's 'sculpture for the blind' / Elio Grazioli

Cinema, phenomenology and hyperrealism / Pietro Conte

Ephemeral bodies: the 'Candles' of Urs Fischer / Cristina Baldacci

The celluloid and the death mask : Bazin's and Eisenstein's image anthropology / Antonio Somaini

Funeral eulogy : post-mortem figures and redeemed bodies, in images / Luisella Farinotti

On Jack Torrance as a fossil form / Barbara Le Maître

Technical images and the transformation of matter in eighteenth-century Tuscany / Anna Luppi

Glass, mixed media, stone : the bodily stuffs of suspended animation / Alessandra Violi

Bodies' strange stories : Les revenants and The leftovers / Luca Malavasi

The impassibly fleshly, the statue of the impossible / Filippo Fimiani

Frozen into allegory: Cleopatra's cultural survival / Elisabeth Bronfen

The orphan image / Federica Villa

The well-tempered memorial : abstraction, anthropomorphism, embodiment / Andrea Pinotti

Monuments of the heart : living tombs and organic memories in contemporary culture / Sara Damiani.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-003-69168-4

90-485-6158-2

90-485-2706-6

9781003691686

OCLC:

1176192322