Body image and identity in contemporary societies : psychoanalytic, social, cultural and aesthetic perspectives

Sukhanova, Ekaterina, (editor.). Thomashoff, Hans-Otto, (editor.).

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ISBN: 9780415742917 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780415742900 (hardback)
ISBN: 0415742900 (hardback)
ISBN: 0415742919 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781315724188 (ebook)
Physical Description: print
xi, 138 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: London ; Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

How the brain creates art and dreams / Thomashoff, Hans-Otto -- Norm(s) and functions in outside art / Sukhanova, Ekaterina -- Body and identity objects of redemption in today's unrest / Christaki, Angelique -- Contemporary body : medicine to modern art / Potier, Romy -- . physical disability in the collective imagination / Ebenstein, William -- The disabled body in contemporary society / Korff -ausse, Simone -- Body image and identity in victims of extreme violence / Waintrater, Regine -- The body and aids transformed into a work of art by Herv Guibert / Brun, Anne -- The "composite body" in contemporary art / Desprats-Pequignot, Catherine -- The multiple bodies of Michael Jackson, a paradigm for understanding postmodern society? / Schauder, Silke -- From catharsis to the cathartic : towards a post-dramatic theory of representation / Mattos, Renata and Vives, Jean-Michel -- Modified images of the body : new forms of identity with a note on the cadavers of Gunter von Hagens / Masson, Coline -- Of beauty and "beauties" : female identities and body image in Colombia / Forero Pena, Alcira -- Tatoos/hysteria / Wolff Bernstein, Jeanne -- Body in art and art therapy : humorous presentations notes on the contributors / Kopytin, Alexander.