LEADER 03629nam 2200601 450 001 9910798568203321 005 20201023111955.0 010 $a1-4725-9599-8 010 $a1-4725-9597-1 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472595997 035 $a(CKB)3710000000750840 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4592619 035 $a(OCoLC)1201426848 035 $a(CaBNVSL)mat72595997 035 $a(CaBNVSL)9781472595997 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000750840 100 $a20201023d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe artificial body in fashion and art $emarionettes, models and mannequins /$fAdam Geczy$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aLondon, England :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2020. 210 2$aLondon, England :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2020 215 $a1 online resource (233 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) $cillustrations, photographs 311 $a1-4725-9595-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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 U?bermensch -- 7. Genetically Baroque Beings: Cybergender, Transexuality and Natrificiality -- 8. Future Postscript: Shells and Ghosts, Bodies and Souls -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 8 $aArtificial bodies constructed in human likeness, from uncanny automatons to mechanical dolls, have long played a complex and subtle role in human identity and culture. This book takes a range of these bodies, from antiquity to the present day, to explore how we seek out echoes, caricatures and replications of ourselves in order to make sense of the complex world in which we live. Packed with case studies, from the commedia del'arte to Hans Bellmer, and the work of Andre Courreges to the 1980s supermodel, this volume explores the divide between the "real" and the constructed. Arguing that the body "other" plays a crucial role in the formation of the self physically and psychologically, leading scholar Adam Geczy contends that the "natural" body has been replaced by a series of imaginary archetypes in our post-modern world, central to which is the figure of the doll. The Artificial Body in Fashion and Art provides a much-needed synthesis of constructed bodies across time and place, drawing on fashion theory, theatre studies and material culture, to explore what the body means in the realms of identity, gender, performance and art. 606 $aHuman beings in art 606 $aHuman body$xSocial aspects 606 $aHuman body in popular culture 606 $aDolls$xSymbolic aspects 606 $aMannequins (Figures) 606 $aMannequins (Figures) in art 606 $aHistory of fashion$2bicssc 615 0$aHuman beings in art. 615 0$aHuman body$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aHuman body in popular culture. 615 0$aDolls$xSymbolic aspects. 615 0$aMannequins (Figures) 615 0$aMannequins (Figures) in art. 615 7$aHistory of fashion 676 $a702.8 700 $aGeczy$b Adam$01056086 801 0$bN 801 1$bCaBNVSL 801 2$bCaBNVSL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798568203321 996 $aThe artificial body in fashion and art$93798775 997 $aUNINA