{"title":"Frozen into Allegory:","authors":"E. Bronfen","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.24","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"36 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":"124481701","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}
Pub Date : 2020-06-29DOI: 10.5117/9789089648525_chiv04
A. Pinotti
This paper addresses some crucial categories in contemporary practices of memorialisation and public sculpture, including the polarities of “abstraction / figuration” and “transitivity / intransitivity” and the questions of anthropomorphism and embodiment. Referring to paradigmatic cases belonging to different media—sculpture, architecture, video installations—and comparing different memorialistic subjects (the Holocaust memorials, the Italian fascist sacraria, the monuments dedicated to the Vietnam war), the chapter investigates the dialectics of presence and absence in the relationship between the present material body of the monument and the absent bodies evoked by the process of memorialisation.
{"title":"The Well-Tempered Memorial : Abstraction, Anthropomorphism, Embodiment","authors":"A. Pinotti","doi":"10.5117/9789089648525_chiv04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789089648525_chiv04","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses some crucial categories in contemporary practices\u0000 of memorialisation and public sculpture, including the polarities\u0000 of “abstraction / figuration” and “transitivity / intransitivity” and the\u0000 questions of anthropomorphism and embodiment. Referring to paradigmatic\u0000 cases belonging to different media—sculpture, architecture,\u0000 video installations—and comparing different memorialistic subjects\u0000 (the Holocaust memorials, the Italian fascist sacraria, the monuments\u0000 dedicated to the Vietnam war), the chapter investigates the dialectics of\u0000 presence and absence in the relationship between the present material\u0000 body of the monument and the absent bodies evoked by the process of\u0000 memorialisation.","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"27 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":"125892815","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}
Pub Date : 2020-06-29DOI: 10.1515/9789048527069-005
B. Grespi
This essay addresses cinema slapstick stars as figures of the body poised between flesh and stone: by matching the gestures of stone with those both of the statue and of the mineral as such, the silent actor becomes the emblem of how a body can be de-animated in a way that evokes at once certain pathological states and the freezing of a mimetic animal. Analysing in particular Charlie Chaplin’s work with gesture in his first encounters with statues and in the famous “fight” with the marble group of City Lights (1933), the paper interrogates the aesthetic meaning of the pose within the wider process of the de-humanising of the actor’s body as theorised in early film theories, in which one leading model was animal mimicry.
{"title":"3. Pantomime in Stone: Performance of the Pose and Animal Camouflage","authors":"B. Grespi","doi":"10.1515/9789048527069-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048527069-005","url":null,"abstract":"This essay addresses cinema slapstick stars as figures of the body poised\u0000 between flesh and stone: by matching the gestures of stone with those\u0000 both of the statue and of the mineral as such, the silent actor becomes the\u0000 emblem of how a body can be de-animated in a way that evokes at once\u0000 certain pathological states and the freezing of a mimetic animal. Analysing\u0000 in particular Charlie Chaplin’s work with gesture in his first encounters\u0000 with statues and in the famous “fight” with the marble group of City Lights\u0000 (1933), the paper interrogates the aesthetic meaning of the pose within\u0000 the wider process of the de-humanising of the actor’s body as theorised\u0000 in early film theories, in which one leading model was animal mimicry.","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"46 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":"130655565","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":"Animated Statues and Petrified Bodies:","authors":"M. Bertolini","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"13 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":"126734007","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}
Pub Date : 2020-06-29DOI: 10.1017/9789048527069.018
E. Bronfen
This article explores the ambivalence at work in the cultural afterlife of Cleopatra on stage and on screen. Three aspects of the resuscitation of a political body frozen into a mythic signifier come into play: celebrity as a modern form of political charisma, theatrical spectacle as support of political power and imaginary projection as a tool for feminine selfperformance. Shakespeare’s late tragedy and Mankiewicz’s Hollywood epic are the main texts discussed.
{"title":"Frozen into Allegory: Cleopatra’s Cultural Survival","authors":"E. Bronfen","doi":"10.1017/9789048527069.018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048527069.018","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the ambivalence at work in the cultural afterlife of\u0000 Cleopatra on stage and on screen. Three aspects of the resuscitation of\u0000 a political body frozen into a mythic signifier come into play: celebrity\u0000 as a modern form of political charisma, theatrical spectacle as support\u0000 of political power and imaginary projection as a tool for feminine selfperformance.\u0000 Shakespeare’s late tragedy and Mankiewicz’s Hollywood\u0000 epic are the main texts discussed.","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"16 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":"122801371","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":"Funeral Eulogy:","authors":"L. Farinotti","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"32 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":"134404860","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}
Pub Date : 2020-06-29DOI: 10.1017/9789048527069.002
Greta Perletti
This chapter relates the statue-like bodies of some Elizabethan and early Jacobean plays to the theories about memory and forgetting that were circulating in late sixteenth-century philosophical and medical discourse. In particular, the chapter shows how memory images, which in antiquity played a pivotal role in the art of memory, were represented as inducing a paralysing, statue-like state in living bodies. Shakespeare’s work partakes in this re-assessment of memory images, as words are more powerful memory triggers and carriers than monuments and statues. Moreover, while Shakespeare’s tragedies stage bodies turning into stone because of the destructive fixedness of the past, his late plays manage to set in motion the images produced by memory and by so doing resist death-like paralysis.
{"title":"Theatre and Memory: The Body-as-Statue in Early Modern Culture","authors":"Greta Perletti","doi":"10.1017/9789048527069.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048527069.002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter relates the statue-like bodies of some Elizabethan and early\u0000 Jacobean plays to the theories about memory and forgetting that were\u0000 circulating in late sixteenth-century philosophical and medical discourse.\u0000 In particular, the chapter shows how memory images, which in antiquity\u0000 played a pivotal role in the art of memory, were represented as inducing a\u0000 paralysing, statue-like state in living bodies. Shakespeare’s work partakes\u0000 in this re-assessment of memory images, as words are more powerful\u0000 memory triggers and carriers than monuments and statues. Moreover,\u0000 while Shakespeare’s tragedies stage bodies turning into stone because of\u0000 the destructive fixedness of the past, his late plays manage to set in motion\u0000 the images produced by memory and by so doing resist death-like paralysis.","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"73 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":"125916006","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":"[I. Introduction]","authors":"B. Grespi","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"25 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":"127808914","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}
Pub Date : 2020-06-29DOI: 10.1017/9789048527069.015
A. Violi
{"title":"Glass, Mixed Media, Stone: The Bodily Stuffs of Suspended Animation","authors":"A. Violi","doi":"10.1017/9789048527069.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048527069.015","url":null,"abstract":"","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":"129525278","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}
One of the lesser-known works by Brancusi, Sculpture for the Blind is actually a key work, paradigmatic of the artist’s entire output. Perfectly oval in shape, it is the endpoint of Brancusi’s trajectory towards abstraction, which leads from the head to the egg as a symbol of origin. But, destined for the “blind”, on the one hand it displaces fruition from sight to touch, highlighting the importance of this modality also for other works; on the other hand it indicates the importance of “blinding” for understanding art; finally it denounces in its own way the blindness of so many self-styled art users. The essay reconstructs the history of the sculpture, its interpretations and its further implications.
{"title":"Brancusi’s ‘Sculpture for the Blind’","authors":"E. Grazioli","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.12","url":null,"abstract":"One of the lesser-known works by Brancusi, Sculpture for the Blind is\u0000 actually a key work, paradigmatic of the artist’s entire output. Perfectly\u0000 oval in shape, it is the endpoint of Brancusi’s trajectory towards abstraction,\u0000 which leads from the head to the egg as a symbol of origin. But,\u0000 destined for the “blind”, on the one hand it displaces fruition from sight\u0000 to touch, highlighting the importance of this modality also for other\u0000 works; on the other hand it indicates the importance of “blinding” for\u0000 understanding art; finally it denounces in its own way the blindness of\u0000 so many self-styled art users. The essay reconstructs the history of the\u0000 sculpture, its interpretations and its further implications.","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"111 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":"121741412","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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