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By Adam Geczy

ISBN-10: 1472595955

ISBN-13: 9781472595959

ISBN-10: 1472595963

ISBN-13: 9781472595966

man made our bodies built in human likeness, from uncanny automatons to mechanical dolls, have lengthy performed a posh and sophisticated position in human id and tradition. This publication takes a variety of those our bodies, from antiquity to the current day, to discover how we hunt down echoes, caricatures and replications of ourselves to be able to make feel of the complicated global during which we are living.

Packed with case stories, from the commedia del'arte to Hans Bellmer and the Eighties twiglet, this quantity explores the divide among the "real†? and the built. Arguing that the physique "other†? performs an important function within the formation of the self bodily and psychologically, top student Adam Geczy contends that the "natural†? physique has been changed by means of a sequence of imaginary archetypes in our post-modern international, relevant to that is the determine of the doll.

The synthetic physique in model and artwork provides a much-needed synthesis of built our bodies throughout time and position, drawing on model concept, theatre reviews and fabric tradition, to discover what the physique capacity within the geographical regions of identification, gender, functionality and art.

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