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Visions of the Human: Art, World War I and the Modernist Subject

Autor Tom Slevin
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 mai 2015
In what ways do the artistic avant-garde's representations of the human body reflect the catastrophe of World War I? The European modernists were inspired by developments in the nineteenth-century, yielding new forms of knowledge about the nature of reality and repositioning the human body as the new 'object' of knowledge. New 'visions' of the human subject were created within this transformation. However, modernity's reactionary political climate - for which World War I provided a catalyst - transformed a once liberal ideal between humanity, environment, and technology, into a tool of disciplinary rationalisation. Visions of the Human considers the consequences of this historical moment for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It explores the ways in which the 'technologies of the self' that inspired the avant-garde were increasingly instrumentalised by conservative politics, urbanism, consumer capitalism and the society of 'the spectacle'. This is an engaging and powerful study which challenges prior ideas and explores new ways of thinking about modern visual culture.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781780766317
ISBN-10: 1780766319
Pagini: 344
Ilustrații: 58 integrated bw
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Tom Slevin is Critical Theory Programme Leader and Lecturer in Cultural and Contextual Studies at the University of Creative Arts, Kent, UK. He is also Lecturer in Photography at Southampton Solent University.

Cuprins

List of IllustrationsIntroduction[4319]6Chapter One: New Visions of the Human [24974]Introduction21Vision and Knowledge26Cultural Encoding33The 'Crisis of the Subject' 43Cubist Perceptions50The Bionomic of Body and Environment 71Cubism, Phenomena and Intersubjectivity77Chapter Two: The Simultaneous Subject [20862]Introduction90Colour, Form, and Memory99Simultaneous Materiality104La Prose du Transsibérien110Vision and the Fourth Dimension113La Robe Simultanée130Chapter Three: Rationalised Existence [16555]Introduction: Cubism After the War142The Cubist Rhizome145The European Avant-Garde152Oskar Schlemmer and Rationalised Cubism155Schlemmer's Bodies161Man in Space168The Figure of Reactionary Modernism174The Monumental Body185 Chapter Four: Modernity's Vitruvian Bodies [9638]Introduction: Vitruvian Men190Rudolph Laban's Icosahedron197The Kinesphere203Cybernetic Bodies209Le Corbusier, the Body, and the 'Mass Ornament' 215The Geometry of Utopia220Le Modulor235Conclusion: From n-Dimensional Imagination to One Dimensional Man [9294] 239[Total approx. 85000 words - exc. Bibliography & endnotes]Endnotes264Bibliography 289