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Talking Bodies: Image, Power, Impact, Paperback / softback Book

Talking Bodies: Image, Power, Impact Paperback / softback

Edited by Bettina Richter, Museum fur Gestaltung Zurich

Paperback / softback

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Bodies act as powerful signs: Which bodies are represented and how, which gaze determines them, which bodies are not shown or only shown in a particular way and in a particular context?

Normative ideas of the body and beauty shape images of the self and the world.

They are bodies that manifest inequalities and reflect the prevailing relations of power and violence. Talking Bodies examines mechanisms of representation of the body in medial cultures and illus- trates them exemplarily with posters.

Masterpieces of art history that have inscribed themselves in the collective memory are negotiated, as are contemporary self-dramatizations in social media, gender stereotypes, images of black bodies, and the representation of disabled and non-normative bodies.

With its focus on the construction and impact of body images, but also on possible strategies of resistance, the publication sees itself as a critical contribution to current debates. With essays by Markus Dederich, Florian Diener, Hans Fässler, Bettina Richter, Maria Schreiber, Marilyn Umurungi, Paula-Irene Villa

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