Edgar Degas

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Moving imagination 1
4. Bodily resonance 19
5. The moving body 37
6. Movement, gesture, and meaning 51
7. Achieved spontaneity and spectator’s performative experience – The motor dimension of the actor-spectator relationship 69
8. The digital body in contemporary American cinema 87
9. Embodiment 101
10. Is gesture knowledge? A philosophical approach to the epistemology of musical gestures 113
11. Sound in film as an inner movement 133
12. Body English 149
13. The somatic in kinetic sculpture 167
14. Edgar Degas 185
15. Time lines 205
16. Styles of observation and embodiment 221
17. Cy Twombly 235
18. Pre-motor and motor activities in early medieval handwriting 247
19. The neurophenomenology of gesture in the art of Henri Michaux 263
20. Moving without moving 281
21. The “I cannot, but it can” of aesthetic perception 295
22. Name index 311
23. Subject index 313