Comparative Guts : Exploring the Inside of the Body through Time and Space
The images and texts in this catalogue testify to a wonderful cooperative effort: Comparative Guts, the coming together of over thirty anthropologists, artists and historians to explore the human body and establish a dialogue between representations, perceptions, audiences and communicative styles. The focus is on one particular body part: the innards of the lower torso,what English-speakers sometimes call the “guts”. The images and texts collected here speak about the way human beings have desired and attempted to learn about this region of the body, and to describe and represent it visually. The project’s work resulted in a digital exhibition (www.comparative-guts.net) whose sections, like the chapters of this book, aim to overcome regional boundaries and cultural structures to make as much space as possible for variety and interconnections, juxtaposing mainstream works and well-known stories with cultural expressions that are peculiar, specific, far apart, eccentric and even obscure.
Ergänzende Materialien
Vorschau
Rechte
Nutzung und Vervielfältigung:
Bitte beachten Sie, dass einzelne Bestandteile der Publikation anderweitigen Lizenz- bzw. urheberrechtlichen Bedingungen unterliegen können.