Probing the skin :: cultural representations of our contact zone /

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores representations of skin in literature, art, art history, visual media, and medicine and its history. The essays collected here probe the symbolic potential of skin as a shifting sign in various historical and cultural contexts, and also ex...

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Weitere Verfasser: Rosenthal, Caroline, 1969- (HerausgeberIn), Vanderbeke, Dirk, 1958- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
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Zusammenfassung:Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores representations of skin in literature, art, art history, visual media, and medicine and its history. The essays collected here probe the symbolic potential of skin as a shifting sign in various historical and cultural contexts, and also examine the material and organic properties of the body's largest organ. They deal with skin as a sensual organ, as an interface or contact zone, as the visual marker of identity, and as a lieu de memoire in different periods and media. In its material characteristics, skin is regarded as a medium, a.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (vi, 341 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781443875189
144387518X
1322889767
9781322889764

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