The Prosthetic Aesthetic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prosthetic Aesthetic write by Marquard Smith. This book was released on 2002. The Prosthetic Aesthetic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Prosthetic Aesthetic
The Prosthetic Aesthetic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prosthetic Aesthetic write by Amanda Davis. This book was released on 2008. The Prosthetic Aesthetic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Prosthetic Gods
Prosthetic Gods - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prosthetic Gods write by Hal Foster. This book was released on 2004. Prosthetic Gods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How to imagine not only a new art or architecture but a new self or subject equal to them? In Prosthetic Gods, Hal Foster explores this question through the works and writings of such key modernists as Gauguin and Picasso, F. T. Marinetti and Wyndham Lewis, Adolf Loos and Max Ernst. These diverse figures were all fascinated by fictions of origin, either primordial and tribal or futuristic and technological. In this way, Foster argues, two forms came to dominate modernist art above all others: the primitive and the machine. Foster begins with the primitivist fantasies of Gauguin and Picasso, which he examines through the Freudian lens of the primal scene. He then turns to the purist obsessions of the Viennese architect Loos, who abhorred all things primitive. Next Foster considers the technophilic subjects propounded by the futurist Marinetti and the vorticist Lewis. These "new egos" are further contrasted with the "bachelor machines" proposed by the dadaist Ernst. Foster also explores extrapolations from the art of the mentally ill in the aesthetic models of Ernst, Paul Klee, and Jean Dubuffet, as well as manipulations of the female body in the surrealist photography of Brassai, Man Ray, and Hans Bellmer. Finally, he examines the impulse to dissolve the conventions of art altogether in the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, the scatter pieces of Robert Morris, and the earthworks of Robert Smithson, and traces the evocation of lost objects of desire in sculptural work from Marcel Duchamp and Alberto Giacometti to Robert Gober. Although its title is drawn from Freud, Prosthetic Godsdoes not impose psychoanalytic theory on modernist art; rather, it sets the two into critical relation and scans the greater historical field that they share.
Lower-limb Prosthetics
Lower-limb Prosthetics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lower-limb Prosthetics write by Norman Berger. This book was released on 1997. Lower-limb Prosthetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Prosthetic Imagination
The Prosthetic Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prosthetic Imagination write by Peter Boxall. This book was released on 2020-09-03. The Prosthetic Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Prosthetic Imagination, leading critic Peter Boxall argues that we are now entering an artificial age, in which our given bodies enter into new conjunctions with our prosthetic extensions. This new age requires us to reimagine our relation to our bodies, and to our environments, and Boxall suggests that the novel as a form can guide us in this imaginative task. Across a dazzling range of prose fictions, from Thomas More's Utopia to Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Boxall shows how the novel has played a central role in forging the bodies in which we extend ourselves into the world. But if the novel has helped to give our world a human shape, it also contains forms of life that elude our existing human architectures: new amalgams of the living and the non-living that are the hidden province of the novel imagination. These latent conjunctions, Boxall argues, are preserved in the novel form, and offer us images of embodied being that can help us orient ourselves to our new prosthetic condition.
