Bodily Communication in Picture Acts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. Preface VII
4. On Warburg, Bildakt and Embodiment IX
5. I. Bildakt (Picture Act)
6. The Picture Act: Tradition, Horizon, Philosophy 3
7. Extended Imagery, Extended Access, Or Something Else? 33
8. Bildakt Demystified 51
9. Picture Act Method 69
10. II. Traditions
11. Though This Be Madness: Edgar Wind and the Warburg Tradition 87
12. “Ein Geistvoller Amerikaner” 117
13. III. The Acting Body
14. Moving Speech 139
15. “Not Only from his Hand But Also From his Temper” 151
16. Haptic Perception in Mattia Preti’s Doubting Thomas (1635/40) 171
17. The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela as a Tactile Theater 189
18. IV. The Living Body
19. Bodily Communication in Picture Acts 223
20. Life, but not as we Know it 231
21. Picture Credits 252
22. Backmatter 256