The Artificial Body in Fashion and Art : Marionettes, Models and Mannequins.

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Praise page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 CLOTHES OF CARNIVAL: PERSONAL PUPPETEERING AND ROLE PLAY -- Precursors: Atellan farce -- Pulchinello and Punch -- Commedia clowns and the mind-body problem -- Representations of the commedia dell'arte in art -- 2 A SOUL IN CONTROL: THE ART OF THE AUTOMATON -- Early automata -- Pygmalion and Pygmalionism -- Vaucanson -- The art of automata -- The chess-playing Turk -- The end of a fantasy, the beginning of a contrivance -- 3 DARK DOUBLES: DOLLS AS A SOLUTION TO THE FALLIBLE BODY -- A world with no puppet master: Jean Paul -- Kleist's Über das Marionettentheatre and E. T A. Hoffmann's Sandman -- Maeterlinck, Craig and the Über- marionette -- Rilke and the puppet -- 4 BETWEEN TORTURE AND TRANSCENDENCE: THE DOLL IN ART -- Bellmer: The terror of art -- Cindy Sherman and the evaporated self -- The vulnerability of fake fl esh: The hyperrealist dolls of Jinks, Mueck and Piccinini -- 5 A MODEL SUBJECT: THE WINDOW DUMMY, THE FASHION DOLL AND THE DOUBLE1 -- Fashion dolls -- The birth of the mannequin -- Early modern modeling -- The doll standard and the modern body -- Barbie, beauty, queer -- 6 EXTREME HELLENE: SPORT, SUPERHEROES AND THE MODERN ÜBERMENSCH -- From the "normal" body to the sport body -- Male doll culture and superheroes -- Pumping iron and building a body (a)part -- Hypermasculine queer -- The anatomic shell and death: Bodybuilding and AIDS -- 7 GENETICALLY BAROQUE BEINGS: CYBERGENDER, TRANSEXUALITY AND NATRIFICIALITY -- Plastic surgery -- Performing monstrosities: Orlan -- Porn, sex, dolls and the natrifi cial -- No need for life: RealDolls are here -- Living dolls -- The incorporated doll and the internalized fetish.

8 FUTURE POSTSCRIPT: SHELLS AND GHOSTS, BODIES AND SOULS -- CONCLUSION: BETWEEN BEAUTY AND TERROR -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

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