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"Hominids have always been obsessed with representing their own bodies. The first "selfies" were prehistoric negative hand images and human stick figures, followed by stone and ceramic representations of the human figure. Thousands of years later, moving via historic art and literature to contemporary social media, the contemporary term "selfie" was self-generated. The Body, Subject & Subjected illuminates some "selfies." This collection of critical essays about the fixation on the human self addresses a multi-faceted geographic set of cultures - the Iberian Peninsula to pre-Columbian America and Hispanic America - analyzing such representations from medical, literal and metaphorical perspectives over centuries. Chapter contributions address the representation of the body itself as subject, in both visual and textual manners, and illuminate attempts at control of the environment, of perception, of behavior and of actions, by artists and authors. Other chapters address the body as subjected to circumstance, representing the body as affected by factors such as illness, injury, treatment and death. These myriad effects on the body are interpreted through the brushes of painters and the pens of authors for social and/or personal control purposes. The essays reveal critics' insights when "selfies" are examined through a focused "lens" over a breadth of cultures"--
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SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology, Spanish literature, Latin American literature, History and criticism, Human figure in art, Latin American Art, Human body in literature, Spanish Art, MEDICAL / History, Art, spanish, Art, latin american, Spanish literature, history and criticism, Latin american literature, history and criticism, MEDICAL, History, SCIENCE, Life Sciences, Human Anatomy & PhysiologyShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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The body, subject & subjected: the representation of the body itself, illness, injury, treatment & death in Spain and indigenous and Hispanic American art & literature
2016, Sussex Academic Press
in English
1845197402 9781845197407
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