Talking Bodies

Image, Power, Impact

Bettina Richter, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Florian Diener , Hans Fässler

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English

Lars Muller Publishers
21 November 2023

Human figures depicted in art; Photography & photographs; Fashion & society

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How advertising and art manipulate body-image norms: a visual analysis with strategies for resistance.

Images of bodies operate as powerful signifiers and as cultural determinants. Normative ideas of the body and beauty in particular shape images of the self and the world; they produce bodies that create inequalities and reflect the prevailing relations of power and violence. Which bodies are represented and how? Whose gaze determines them? Which bodies are not shown or only shown in a particular way and in a particular context? Talking Bodies examines mechanisms of representation of the body in media culture-posters and advertisements-from gender stereotypes to images of Black bodies and the representation of disabled and non-normative bodies. With its focus on the construction and impact of body images and on possible strategies of resistance, Talking Bodies offers a critical contribution to current debates.

AUTHOR: Bettina Richter is the curator of the Poster Collection of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich.

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Paperback exhibition catalog to a show at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich presenting posters from the museum collection juxtaposed with artworks and everyday objects to prompt a multifaceted examination of the body in its cultural, social and political dimensions. It's about body depictions-how female and Black bodies get exploited. Cover is Naomi Campbell but bleached out to look white. .

Exhibition in Zurich, Switzerland, at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, October 202February 2024.

184 illustrations

Text by: Florian Diener, Hans Fässler, Maria Schreiber
Edited by: Bettina Richter, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Imprint: Lars Muller Publishers
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 220mm, Width: 150mm,
ISBN: 9783037787342
ISBN 10: 3037787341
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 21 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active