"The image is an ontological paradox; it is made of dead matter, yet appears to be alive. For centuries, artists have created images of the living world -- images that are static and yet possess the power to bring to life a frozen moment in time. While this tension has constituted a fundamental...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Borggreen, Gunhild (HerausgeberIn), Hansen, Maria Fabricius (HerausgeberIn), Tindbæk, Rosanna (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Aarhus, Denmark : Aarhus University Press, [2020]
Schlagworte:	Life in art. Death in art. Image (Philosophy) Art > Themes, motives > History. Vie dans l'art. Mort dans l'art. Image (Philosophie) Art > Thèmes, motifs > Histoire. ART / General Art > Themes, motives Death in art Life in art Electronic books. History
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Zusammenfassung:	"The image is an ontological paradox; it is made of dead matter, yet appears to be alive. For centuries, artists have created images of the living world -- images that are static and yet possess the power to bring to life a frozen moment in time. While this tension has constituted a fundamental challenge for as long as theories on the nature of images have existed, recent scholarship has rekindled interest in the question of what images 'do to us'. Despite the rational discourse of Modernity, we must acknowledge that we view images as half-living entities. Dead or Alive! addresses the perpetual relevance of images' enigmatic life-likeness. Each of the twelve chapters, written by scholars of art history and visual culture, conveys how the materiality of images generates this powerful effect of animation. Covering a wide range of practices, from early paleolithic stone engravings, medieval tomb sculpture, renaissance death masks and baroque painting to modern fashion, park design, early cinema, robots and bio art, the book demonstrates that the ontological paradox of the image is not limited to a specific historical period or certain types of images, but can be seen throughout the history of images across different cultures."-- -- Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Dead or Alive!: Tracing the Animation of Matter in Art And Visual Culture (Rosanna Tindbæk, Gunhild Borggreen And Maria Fabricius Hansen) -- The Principle of Life -- The Principle of the Image -- Chapter Summaries -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Fugitive Mirror: Art Neither Dead Nor Alive (Alexander Nagel) -- 1. Prophecy of the Anthropocene -- 2. The Marriage of Sulfur and Mercury -- 3. The Butcher's Calling in the Granite -- 4. Tree in the Shape of a Man -- 5. Jesus Christ Neither Dead Nor Alive The Most Difficult of All: The Life and Death of Italian Tomb Sculpture, c. 1280-1490(Frank Fehrenbach) -- The Principle of Life -- The Principle of the Image -- Doubling -- Life versus Death -- Art and the Emergence of Life -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Animating The Crystalline: A Posthumanist Elaboration Of Wilhelm Worringer's Abstraktion Und Einfühlung (1907) (Jacob Wamberg) -- Extending Worringer -- Enter: Complexity Theory -- Differentiation versus Order/Chaos -- Coda: Non-Human Beginnings -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Ghosts In The Gallery: Animated Images From Rembrandt To Bendz (Mikkel Bogh) Museum Outreach -- The Hand in the Gallery Picture -- A Ghostly Presence -- Uncanny Picture Acts -- A Pictorial Animation of a Scarecrow -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Living Sculptures: Natural Art And Artificial Nature In Sixteenth-Century Ornamental Frescoes (Maria Fabricius Hansen) -- Sculpture in Painting -- Statuesque Naturalism -- Blurring of Borders -- The Center of Marginality -- Dead or Alive? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Two Fifteenth Century Italian Death Masks: Made Of Earth And Absences (To Make Hearts Grow Fonder) (Katerina Harris) -- Pleasing or Horrifying? -- Monuments or Memories? Frozen or Suspended? -- Dead or Alive? -- Absence as Subject -- Notes -- Bibliography -- The Image As Nymph: On Affect, Animation, And Alchemical Affinities (Chris Askholt Hammeken) -- Imaginary Breeze, Animated Accessory -- Empathic Identification -- Energeia and Enargeia between Image and Beholder -- Desire: The Nymph as Threshold Being -- Alchemical Affinities -- Notes -- Bibliography -- A Sleeping Girl On A Silver Tray: Animate Fantasies Of Consumption In A Nineteenthcentury Still Life (Rosanna Tindbæk) -- The Un-stillness of Still Lifes -- The Image of Sleep between Motion and Stillness The Apple of the Eye -- Eating and Knowing -- Muddy Materiality -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 'Catch That Monster!': Immobilization Of The Simulacrum In Cinema (Jérémie Koerin G) -- Between Movement and Immobility -- Back to Materiality -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Invisible Mechanics Life In Android And Robot Representations (Gunhild Borggreen) -- Android Mechanical Figures -- Karakuri Automata in Japan -- Representations in Woodblock Prints -- Androids and the Human Body -- Convergence of Human and Non-Human -- Lines of Desire -- Present-day Robot Representations -- Notes.
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ISBN:	9788771843521 8771843523