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Bodies We Fail: Productive Embodiments of Imperfection

Bodies We Fail: Productive Embodiments of Imperfection

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Art Criticism & TheoryGeneral ArtGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 3837626091
ISBN13: 9783837626094
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Published: Sep 15 2014
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
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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