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Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts (Hardcover, 0)
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Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts (Hardcover, 0)
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If mediatization has surprisingly revealed the secret life of inert
matter and the 'face of things', the flipside of this has been the
petrification of living organisms, an invasion of stone bodies in a
state of suspended animation. Within a contemporary imaginary
pervaded by new forms of animism, the paradigm of death looms large
in many areas of artistic experimentation, pushing the modern body
towards mineral modes of being which revive ancient myths of
flesh-made-stone and the issue of the monument. Scholars in media,
visual culture and the arts propose studies of bodies of stone,
from actors simulating statues to the transmutation of the filmic
body into a fossil; from the real treatment of the cadaver as a
mineral living object to the rediscovery of materials such as wax;
from the quest for a 'thermal' equivalence between stone and flesh
to the transformation of the biomedical body into a living
monument.
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