ReMembering the body
This work is dedicated to every aspect of the human form and its representation in art, performance, dance and science. It explores topics such as body movement and film, choreography, violation of taboos, aesthetics and violence in both the sciences and the arts at the end of the 20th century.
Print Book, English, ©2000
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Hatje Cantz ; Distribution in the US, D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers, Ostfildern-Ruit, New York, N.Y., ©2000
Exhibition catalogues
382 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
9783775709057, 3775709053
44850112
Membra disiecta : embalmment and anatomy in Egypt and Europe / Aleida and Jan Assmann. Re-membering Osiris : from the death cult to cultural memory / Jan Assmann ; Body, text, and transcendence / Aleida Assmann
Choreography as a cenotaph : the memory of movement / Gabriele Brandstetter
Bending towards the breaking point : the de-formation of dance and mannerist images of the body / Gerald Siegmund
The human touch : towards a historical anthropology and dream analysis of self-acting instruments / Allen Feldman
From poetry to prose : sciences of movement in the nineteenth century / Friedrich Kittler
Step by step
cut by cut : cinematic worlds / Gertrud Koch
Images of the body : on sensory perception in medicine and in everyday life / Peter Moeschl
The other city of silence : disaster and the petrified bodies of history / C. Nadia Seremetakis
Still : on the vibratile microscopy of dance / André Lepecki
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "STRESS" at MAK, Vienna