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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Human figures depicted in art
The world is becoming a busy noisy place and it is good to find a
pastime that creates a different space, another dimension. Our
paintings mean a lot to us because they remind us of lovely places
we have visited and enable us to remember them in detail. It takes
time to study the colours and contours of a scene. It may be that
the drawing is an inadequate representation of the three
dimensional scene spread out before us, how can it be anything
else, but the process of trying to represent it on the two
dimensions of the blank page is intellectually rewarding. The
emerging picture is not just about the scene before you but also
about your response to it at the time.
Throughout the fin de siecle, "energy" was a buzzword that was used
far beyond the boundaries of the sciences to negotiate the
formative scope as well as limits of Western modernity. The human
body was positioned at the center of the visualization of this
enigmatic drive of all movement in discourses on labor and
economics, physical culture, sport, art, and literature. It was
through the body that this all-pervading and conditioning physical
principle as well as its perceptual qualities were to be made
tangible. This volume is dedicated to these "energetic bodies." The
transdisciplinary individual contributions trace body scenarios of
force and energy over the course of history from 1800 to the peak
phase around 1900 and up to the present.
Text in English, French & German. "Some girls can hold their
pee forever like camels! I've never been one of them. If I go
somewhere where toilets are nigh impossible to find, I can get
downright naughty with my wees these days, even in the middle of a
road." -- Faye, 20 years
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