ISBN:
9780415742900
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (151 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Body Image and Identity in Contemporary Societies : Psychoanalytic, social, cultural and aesthetic perspectives
DDC:
306.4/613
Keywords:
Body image..
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Identity (Psychology)
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Popular interest in body image issues has grown dramatically in recent years, due to an emphasis on individual responsibility and self-determination in contemporary society as well as the seemingly limitless capacities of modern medicine; however body image as a separate field of academic inquiry is still relatively young. The contributors of Body Image and Identity in Contemporary Societies explore the complex social, political and aesthetic interconnections between body image and identity. It is an in-depth study that allows for new perspectives in the analysis of contemporary visual art and
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on the contributors; From the editors; 1 How the brain creates art and dreams; 2 Norm(s) and the function of outsider art; 3 Body and identity: objects of redemption in today's unrest; 4 Contemporary body: medicine to modern art; 5 Physical disability in the collective imagination; 6 The disabled body in contemporary society; 7 Body image and identity in victims of extreme violence; 8 The body and AIDS transformed into a work of art by Hervé Guibert; 9 The 'composite body' in contemporary art
Description / Table of Contents:
10 The multiple bodies of Michael Jackson: a paradigm for understanding postmodern society?11 From catharsis to the cathartic: towards a post-dramatic theory of representation; 12 Modified images of the body: new forms of identity with a note on the cadavers of Gunther Von Hagens; 13 Of beauty and 'beauties': female identities and body image in Colombia; 14 Tattoos/hysteria; 15 Body in art and art therapy: humorous presentations; Index
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