Bodies We Fail : : Productive Embodiments of Imperfection / / Jules Sturm.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014
• VerfasserIn: Sturm, Jules,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 38
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Reading for Monsters --; 2. Vulnerability --; 3. Portraiture and Self-Loss --; 4. Absence in Mapplethorpe’s Wake --; 5. Mirroring Age --; Afterword --; Bibliography
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839426098; 9783110369526; 9783110370416; 9783111025223; 9783110489842; 9783110661552; 9783110401226
• DOI: 10.1515/transcript.9783839426098?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jules Sturm.

This book explores the productive effects of bodily 'failure' in the sphere of visuality. The aim is to reflect on the human body's constant exposure to visual constraints and distortions, which are incorporated so strongly in everyday images of our bodies that they become invisible, while yet representative of cultural norms. By analyzing artistic literary and visual representations of imperfect, disabled, aging, queer, and monstrous bodies, this project exposes the »handicaps« of normative vision and opens up new ways of recognizing a multitude of corporeal existences and practices outside the norm.