TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sturm,Jules
TI  - Bodies We Fail: Productive Embodiments of Imperfection 
T2  - Culture & theory
SN  - 9783839426098
AV  - N7625.5 
U1  - 704.942 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Bielefeld
PB  - Transcript Verlag
KW  - Human beings in art
KW  - Mind and body
KW  - Symbolism in art
KW  - Symbolisme dans l'art
KW  - ART
KW  - Subjects & Themes
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Künste
KW  - gnd
KW  - Körper
KW  - Motiv
KW  - Ästhetik
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Reading for Monsters --; 2. Vulnerability --; 3. Portraiture and Self-Loss --; 4. Absence in Mapplethorpe's Wake --; 5. Mirroring Age --; Afterword --; Bibliography
N2  - This book explores the productive effects of bodily 'failure' in the sphere of visuality. The aim is to reflect on the human body's constant exposure to visual constraints and distortions, which are incorporated so strongly in everyday images of our bodies that they become invisible, while yet representative of cultural norms. By analyzing artistic literary and visual representations of imperfect, disabled, aging, queer, and monstrous bodies, this project exposes the "handicaps" of normative vision and opens up new ways of recognizing a multitude of corporeal existences and practices outside the norm
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