1st Edition
Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
INTRODUCTION, I. STATUE: THE IMAGINARY OF UNCERTAIN PETRIFICATION, II. MATTER: SIZE, HARDNESS, DURATION, III. CORPSE: FOSSILS, AUTOICONS, REVENANTS, IV. MONUMENT: EMBODYING AND GRAFTING, Index
Biography
Alessandra Violi is Full Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Bergamo.|Barbara Grespi is Associate Professor at the University of Bergamo where she teaches Cinema and Visual culture.
Andrea Pinotti is Professor in Aesthetics in the Department of Philosophy Piero Martinetti, State University of Milan.
Pietro Conte is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Aesthetics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
