The artificial body in fashion and art : marionettes, models, and mannequins
Record details
- ISBN: 9781472595997 (ebook)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xv, 194 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: [London] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
General Note: | Previously issued in print: London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Digital resource published 2018. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction 1. Clothes of Carnival: Personal Puppeteering and Role Play 2. A Soul in Control: The Art of the Automaton 3. Dark Doubles: Dolls and the Fallible Body 4. Between Torture and Transcendence: The Doll in Art 5. A Model Subject: The Window Dummy, the Fashion Doll, and the Double 6. Extreme Hellene: Sport, Superheroes and the Modern bermensch 7. Genetically Baroque Beings: Cybergender, Transexuality and Natrificiality 8. Future Postscript: Shells and Ghosts, Bodies and Souls Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 13, 2018). |
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Subject: | Mannequins (Figures) in art Mannequins (Figures) Dolls -- Symbolic aspects Human body in popular culture Human body -- Social aspects Human beings in art |