Body criticism : imaging the unseen in Enlightenment art and medicine
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書誌事項
Body criticism : imaging the unseen in Enlightenment art and medicine
MIT Press, c1991
- : hard
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  京都
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  奈良
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  鳥取
  島根
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  広島
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  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
"Body Criticism" is a celebration of visual culture as well as a contribution to our understanding of the history of the human body. At its core is an exploration of the innovative strategies developed in the 18th century for making visible the unseeable aspects of the world. In the process it uncovers and analyzes the persistence of a set of body metaphors deriving from both aesthetic and medical practices. For Barbara Stafford, all forms of representation are metaphors for cognitive processes in a society, and the historian's job is to reconstruct the metaphors in order to shed light on the society. Here she looks at the changing nature of images of the human body as a key to understanding the changing status of the body as Western society was establishing the outlines of modernity. The six central chapters examine a range of images and representational practices under the headings Dissecting, Abstracting, Conceiving, Marking, Magnifying and Sensing. The importance of "Body Criticism" lies in its own visibilizing of previously unexplored interrelationships between art and medicine not only during the Enlightenment but now.
Stafford also presents a strong argument for society's need to recognize the occurrence of a profound revolution - a radical shift from a text-based to a visually-centred culture. She offers an analysis of a philosophic, artistic, and scientific quest that continues in our contemporary technological search to reveal nonapparent physical and mental experience. Based on her study of the roots of this visual culture, she argues that modern societies need to develop innovative, nonlinguistic paradigms and to train a broad public in visual aptitude.
目次
- The visualization of knowledge: somatic metaphors
- antinomies
- hunting for method
- surface or depth
- picture and text. Part 1 Dissecting: searching operations
- physiognomics, or corporeal connisseurship
- the calculation of incongruity
- pathognomics or the pursuit of looks
- Part 2 Abstract: systems of epitomization
- wounds of experience
- distracting styles of pain
- patterns of interiority. Part 3 Conceiving: Barbarisms, or strangeness incarnate
- "Brain-Born Images"
- breeding for difference
- grotesques, or ars combinatoria. Part 4 Marking: contagious pointillism
- stains of desire
- "Like a shadow on the skin"
- romantic misfits. Part 5 Magnifying: microscopic seers
- visual quackery
- dream projections
- free to be false. Part 6 Sensing: a finer touch
- mental meteorology
- fluid phantoms
- communicable feelings. Part 7 Conclusion: the aesthetics of almost.
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