Energetic Bodies: Sciences and Aesthetics of Strength and Strain

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Energetic Bodies

Sciences and Aesthetics of Strength and Strain

Edited by: Thomas Moser and Wilma Scheschonk

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2022

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Volume 3 | Imaginarien der Kraft

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Throughout the fin de siècle, "energy" was a buzzword that was used far beyond the boundaries of the sciences to negotiate the formative scope as well as limits of Western modernity. The human body was positioned at the center of the visualization of this enigmatic drive of all movement in discourses on labor and economics, physical culture, sport, art, and literature. It was through the body that this all-pervading and conditioning physical principle as well as its perceptual qualities were to be made tangible. This volume is dedicated to these "energetic bodies." The transdisciplinary individual contributions trace body scenarios of force and energy over the course of history from 1800 to the peak phase around 1900 and up to the present.

Manifestations of “energy” in bodily processes of perception and transmission
A key concept of modernity - examined over a period from 1800 to the present day

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Wilma Scheschonk, University of Hamburg; Thomas Moser, TU Vienna.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Content Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	7
Sex, Drugs and Bicycles. Alfred Jarry’s “Le surmâle” and the Aesthetics of Energy-Enhancing Strength Thomas Moser and Wilma Scheschonk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
Force of Gravity/Power of Labour—or: Heaving Stones Johannes F. Lehmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	23
Bodies, Suspended. Eadweard Muybridge and the Allure of “Unsupported Transit” Miriam Ashkin Stanton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
Embodied Experiences of Force. Carabin’s Anthropomorphic Fauteuils and the “Muscular Sense” in late 19^th Century Medicine Thomas Moser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	57
Visualising the Muscular Force. Charcot’s and Féré’s Approaches to Exploring the Neurophysiology of Movement in Hysteria Patients Paula Muhr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
The Feeling of Forces. Robert Mayer’s and Friedrich Nietzsche’s Physics and Metaphysics of the Body Adrian Renner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
Movement, Muscle, Matter. Jef Lambeaux’s Wrestling Groups of the 1880s and 1890s Thijs Dekeukeleire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
A Fix of Energy. Joseph Beuys Boxing Wilma Scheschonk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
Body Sculpting. Paradessent Strategies in Contemporary Art Jasmin Mersmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
Sweat, Strain and Surplus in Mika Rottenberg’s “Tropical Breeze” Anna Dezeuze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	173
Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	189
Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193

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eBook published on:

June 6, 2022

eBook ISBN:

9783110767162

Paperback published on:

June 6, 2022

Paperback ISBN:

9783110767063

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Main content:

196

Illustrations:

27

Coloured Illustrations:

32

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110767162

eBook ISBN: 9783110767162

Paperback ISBN: 9783110767063

Keywords for this book

strength; energy; arts and sciences 19th century; turn of the century; art theory; psycho-physiology

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scholars in Visual Studies, Art History, Cultural Studies, History, Philosophy

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