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Product Identifiers
PublisherTaylor & Francis Group
ISBN-100367445026
ISBN-139780367445027
eBay Product ID (ePID)12058353743
Product Key Features
Number of Pages178 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameDolls, Photography and the Late Lacan : Doubles Beyond the Uncanny
Publication Year2020
SubjectMovements / Psychoanalysis, General, Mental Health, History / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt, Psychology
AuthorRosalinda Quintieri
SeriesThe Lines of the Symbolic in Psychoanalysis Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight11.5 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Reviews"Rosalinda Quintieri's exciting and timely book promises to revitalize critical analysis in visual culture through her discussion of contemporary modes of techno-scopophilia. Deploying neglected theoretical resources from the 'late Lacan' in which objects of extimacy become essential parts of our being, Quintieri's book engages with and develops the logic of recent photographic work deploying dolls, mannikins and marionettes that break with the Freudian paradigm of the 'uncanny'. In Quintieri's analysis the 'double' no longer simply provokes a crisis of identity and meaning but opens the way to perverse pleasures of human posterity in which the post-human follows the (an)aesthetic trajectory of the doll." - Scott Wilson, author of Scott Walker and the Song of the One-All-Alone . (Bloomsbury, 2020)
IllustratedYes
Table Of ContentIntroduction: "Quasi-subjects": the hypermodern double between flatness and affective excess 1. The modern doppelgänger : enjoyment as subversion 2. Enjoy (you must)!: Olivier Rebufa and Barbie's dreamlife 3. Silicone Love : photography as de-Realisation 4. Laurie Simmons: pictures beyond the gaze 5. Lars and the Real Girl : a tale of the New Father Conclusions: doubles beyond the uncanny
SynopsisIn this fascinating new book, Rosalinda Quintieri addresses some of the key questions of visual theory concerning our unending fascination with simulacra by evaluating the recent return of the figure of the life-size doll in European and American visual culture., In this fascinating new book, Rosalinda Quintieri addresses some of the key questions of visual theory concerning our unending fascination with simulacra by evaluating the recent return of the life-size doll in European and American visual culture. Through a focus on the contemporary photographic and cinematic forms of this figure and a critical mobilisation of its anthropological complexity, this book offers a new critical understanding of this classical aesthetic motif as a way to explore the relevance that doubling, fantasy and simulation hold in our contemporary culture. Quintieri explores the figure of the inanimate human double as an "inhuman partner", reflecting on contemporary visuality as the field of a hypermodern, post-Oedipal aesthetic. Through a series of case studies that blur traditional boundaries between practices (photography, performance, sculpture, painting, documentary) and between genres (comedy, drama, fairy tale), Quintieri puts in contrast the new function of the double and its plays of simulations on the background of the capitalist injunction to enjoy. Engaging with new theories on post-Oedipal forms of subjectivity developed within the Lacanian orientation of psychoanalysis, Quintieri offers exciting analyses of still and moving photographic work, giving body to an original aesthetic model that promises to revitalise our understanding of contemporary photography and visual culture. It will appeal to psychoanalysts and researchers from Lacanian psychoanalysis, visual studies and cultural theory, as well as readers with an academic interest in the cultural history of dolls and the theory of the uncanny.
LC Classification NumberNX180.S6
