Pub Date : 2020-06-29DOI: 10.1017/9789048527069.003
S. Romani
This contribution uses a contemporary comparandum, namely Antonia Byatt’s story The Stone Woman (2003), to think about the ancient idea that the petrification of a female body is not simply the result of a divine intervention or a magical act. On the contrary, this should be understood as the materialisation, the incarnation of an emotional petrification that derives from an inner trauma. To support this hypothesis, an analysis is offered of some case studies taken from ancient myths (the cases of Aglauros, Caenis and Ariadne), which show how the petrification of the body often occurs at a delicate moment in the growth phase of a young woman: that of the transition from childhood to adulthood.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-29DOI: 10.1017/9789048527069.013
B. L. Maître
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Small things matter, especially in the so-called ‘arts’. From the visual arts to music and literature, ‘miniatures’ are a transcultural and transhistorical phenomenon that involves our aesthetic attitudes but also our everyday life, our emotional, social and cognitive life. Miniaturisation characterises our cognitive life and, of course, the ‘cognitive life of things’ that we produce, manipulate and discard. My paper is articulated into two sections: the first gives a quick overview of the miniatures of Homo sapiens, especially those of the paleolithic age, and a brief survey of the very challenging history of miniature-interpretation in twentieth-century philosophy of culture. In the second part I focus on five cognitive interpretations of miniature, which are supported by some experimental evidence.
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The essay investigates the production of scientific images and threedimensional models in the effervescent dialogue between art and science of eighteenth-century Tuscany. Created to meet new didactic needs, these technical images, such as the anatomical tables conceived by anatomist Paolo Mascagni for the students of the Academy of Fine Arts, abandoned the Vesalian topos of the cadaver as a life-like statue and gave rise to a novel lithic iconography, which emphasised the textured materiality of human remains and their potential transformations across the natural and artificial realms. The miscegenation of manufactures and natural productions was given pride of place in anatomical and botanical atlases, as well as in the scientific collections that sprung up in Tuscany at the time.
{"title":"3. Technical Images and the Transformation of Matter in Eighteenth-Century Tuscany","authors":"Anna Luppi","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.19","url":null,"abstract":"The essay investigates the production of scientific images and threedimensional\u0000 models in the effervescent dialogue between art and science\u0000 of eighteenth-century Tuscany. Created to meet new didactic needs, these\u0000 technical images, such as the anatomical tables conceived by anatomist\u0000 Paolo Mascagni for the students of the Academy of Fine Arts, abandoned\u0000 the Vesalian topos of the cadaver as a life-like statue and gave rise to a\u0000 novel lithic iconography, which emphasised the textured materiality of\u0000 human remains and their potential transformations across the natural\u0000 and artificial realms. The miscegenation of manufactures and natural\u0000 productions was given pride of place in anatomical and botanical atlases,\u0000 as well as in the scientific collections that sprung up in Tuscany at the time.","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129400717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pantomime in Stone:","authors":"B. Grespi","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129700089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
According to phenomenology, existence is an incarnate subjectivation which frees, by perceiving and imagining, the ‘Self’ from its petrification. Autobiography is a fiction pretending to repair this vitality, to represent the irrevocable future instant of death by images and words and to record the past as an irremediable destiny. To write the singular own existence is thus to make up a monumentalisation of the living being, fixed as a statue and fascinating as an idol, a death mask or a mummy. In the 1940s, Sartre, Lévinas, Blanchot and Bataille discussed Baudelaire, Proust and Leiris to challenge Heidegger’s existentialism and ontology of art. The essay examines this crucial debate—interdisciplinary, intertextual and intermedial—about literature and philosophy, picture, magic and death.
{"title":"1. The Impassibly Fleshly, the Statue of the Impossible","authors":"Filippo Fimiani","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.23","url":null,"abstract":"According to phenomenology, existence is an incarnate subjectivation\u0000 which frees, by perceiving and imagining, the ‘Self’ from its petrification.\u0000 Autobiography is a fiction pretending to repair this vitality, to represent\u0000 the irrevocable future instant of death by images and words and to record\u0000 the past as an irremediable destiny. To write the singular own existence\u0000 is thus to make up a monumentalisation of the living being, fixed as a\u0000 statue and fascinating as an idol, a death mask or a mummy. In the 1940s,\u0000 Sartre, Lévinas, Blanchot and Bataille discussed Baudelaire, Proust and\u0000 Leiris to challenge Heidegger’s existentialism and ontology of art. The\u0000 essay examines this crucial debate—interdisciplinary, intertextual and\u0000 intermedial—about literature and philosophy, picture, magic and death.","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128909536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.28","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130692253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Translated Bodies:","authors":"S. Romani","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126035878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This contribution offers an example of a monumental narration arising out of images of death. This is the case of Amos Humiston, a sergeant at the front in the American Civil War who, as he lay dying, chose to look at the photograph of his three children. The monumentalising cadaver’s pose transforms him into an exemplary individual whose story deserves to be recounted and to whom a name needs to be given. A bronze plaque including the photograph of the children was built in his memory; the plaque is one of the most common forms of monument undergoing reconsideration in contemporary art. What it mineralises here is not so much the corpse of the soldier but his story as a whole.
{"title":"The Orphan Image","authors":"F. Villa","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.25","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution offers an example of a monumental narration arising\u0000 out of images of death. This is the case of Amos Humiston, a sergeant at\u0000 the front in the American Civil War who, as he lay dying, chose to look at\u0000 the photograph of his three children. The monumentalising cadaver’s pose\u0000 transforms him into an exemplary individual whose story deserves to be\u0000 recounted and to whom a name needs to be given. A bronze plaque including\u0000 the photograph of the children was built in his memory; the plaque is\u0000 one of the most common forms of monument undergoing reconsideration\u0000 in contemporary art. What it mineralises here is not so much the corpse\u0000 of the soldier but his story as a whole.","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116773952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bodies’ Strange Stories:","authors":"Luca Malavasi","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114358988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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