Tom Slevin

Visions of the Human (eBook, ePUB)

Art, World War I and the Modernist Subject

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In what ways do the artistic avant-garde's representations of the human body reflect the catastrophe of World War I? The European modernists were inspired by developments in the nineteenth-century, yielding new forms of knowledge about the nature of reality and repositioning the human body as the new 'object' of knowledge. New 'visions' of the human subject were created within this transformation. However, modernity's reactionary political climate - for which World War I provided a catalyst - transformed a once liberal ideal between humanity, environment, and technology, into a tool of disciplinary rationalisation. Visions of the Human considers the consequences of this historical moment for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It explores the ways in which the 'technologies of the self' that inspired the avant-garde were increasingly instrumentalised by conservative politics, urbanism, consumer capitalism and the society of 'the spectacle'. This is an engaging and powerful study which challenges prior ideas and explores new ways of thinking about modern visual culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857738912
• Artikelnr.: 50917638

Autorenporträt

Tom Slevin is Critical Theory Programme Leader and Lecturer in Cultural and Contextual Studies at the University of Creative Arts, Kent, UK. He is also Lecturer in Photography at Southampton Solent University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Introduction [4319] 6 Chapter One: New Visions of the
Human [24974] Introduction 21 Vision and Knowledge 26 Cultural Encoding 33
The 'Crisis of the Subject' 43 Cubist Perceptions 50 The Bionomic of Body
and Environment 71 Cubism, Phenomena and Intersubjectivity 77 Chapter Two:
The Simultaneous Subject [20862] Introduction 90 Colour, Form, and Memory
99 Simultaneous Materiality 104 La Prose du Transsibérien 110 Vision and
the Fourth Dimension 113 La Robe Simultanée 130 Chapter Three: Rationalised
Existence [16555] Introduction: Cubism After the War 142 The Cubist Rhizome
145 The European Avant-Garde 152 Oskar Schlemmer and Rationalised Cubism
155 Schlemmer's Bodies 161 Man in Space 168 The Figure of Reactionary
Modernism 174 The Monumental Body 185 Chapter Four: Modernity's Vitruvian
Bodies [9638] Introduction: Vitruvian Men 190 Rudolph Laban's Icosahedron
197 The Kinesphere 203 Cybernetic Bodies 209 Le Corbusier, the Body, and
the 'Mass Ornament' 215 The Geometry of Utopia 220 Le Modulor 235
Conclusion: From n-Dimensional Imagination to One Dimensional Man [9294]
239 [Total approx. 85000 words - exc. Bibliography & endnotes] Endnotes 264
Bibliography 289