Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts

Alessandra Violi, Barbara Grespi, Andrea Pinotti , Pietro Conte

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English

Pallas Publications
29 June 2020

Sculpture; Human figures depicted in art; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Media studies

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.

Contributions by: Cristina Baldacci (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Edited by: Alessandra Violi, Barbara Grespi, Andrea Pinotti, Pietro Conte
Imprint: Pallas Publications
Edition: 0
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 720g
ISBN: 9789089648525
ISBN 10: 9089648526
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 29 June 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Adult education , Undergraduate , Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alessandra Violi is Full Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Bergamo.|Barbara Grespi is Associate Professor at the University of Bergamo where she teaches Cinema and Visual culture. Andrea Pinotti is Professor in Aesthetics in the Department of Philosophy Piero Martinetti, State University of Milan. Pietro Conte is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Aesthetics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Reviews for Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts

Die Kapitel sind alle fundiert recherchiert und sprachlich klar formuliert, so dass es neben dem Erkenntnisgewinn auch eine Freude ist, die Texte zu lesen. Schon die thematische Einleitung der Herausgeber_innen enthalt spannende Informationen sowie philosophische und asthetik-theoretische Ansatze, die spater in einer groesseren Tiefe wieder aufgenommen werden, ohne eine zu komplizierte Sprache zu bemuhen. Sicher ist es nicht zu viel gesagt, wenn man in dieser umfassenden, interdisziplinaren Publikation ein neues Standardwerk zur intermedialen Erforschung visueller Darstellungsformen von 'Koerpern aus Stein' erkennt. Somit sei dieses Buch allen, die das Thema interessiert, warmstens ans Herz gelegt. - Iris Haist (Koeln/Plauen), MEDIENwissenschaft 01/2022