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Author:   Ekaterina Sukhanova (University Director of Academic Program Review at the City University of New York USA) ,  Hans-Otto Thomashoff
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.249kg
ISBN:  

9780415742917

ISBN 10:   0415742919
Pages:   138
Publication Date:   19 March 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Thomashoff, Hans-Otto. How the Brain Creates Art and Dreams . Sukhanova, Ekaterina. Norm(s) and Functions in Outside Art. Christaki, Angelique. Body and identity objects of redemption in today’s unrest. Potier, Rémy. Contemporary Body: Medicine to Modern Art. Ebenstein, William. Physical Disability in the collective imagination. Korff -Sausse, Simone. The disabled body in contemporary society. Waintrater, Régine. Body Image and Identity in Victims of Extreme Violence. Brun, Anne. The Body and AIDS Transformed into a Work of Art by Hervé Guibert. Desprats-Péquignot, Catherine The ""Composite Body"" in Contemporary Art. Schauder, Silke. The Multiple Bodies of Michael Jackson—A Paradigm for Understanding Postmodern Society? Mattos, Renata and Vives, Jean-Michel. From catharsis to the cathartic : towards a post-dramatic theory of representation. Masson, Céline. Modified Images of the Body: New Forms of Identity with a Note on the cadavers of Gunter Von Hagens. Forero Pena, Alcira: Of Beauty and ‘Beauties’: Female Identities and Body Image in Colombia. Wolff Bernstein, Jeanne. Tatoos/Hysteria. Kopytin, Alexander. Body in Art and Art Therapy: Humorous Presentations. Notes on the Contributors. Index ."

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I think the range of material offered here in one volume is probably unique... This looks like an important and unusually comprehensive work. - Nick Totton

Author Information

Ekaterina Sukhanova is University Director of Academic Program Review at the City University of New York USA. She serves as Scientific Secretary of the Section for Art and Psychiatry and the Section of Art and Psychiatry of the World Psychiatric Association. She is also engaged in interdisciplinary research on cultural constructs of mental health and illness and curates exhibits of art brut as a vehicle for fighting stigma. Hans-Otto Thomashoff was born in Germany and lives in Vienna. He is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, art historian and author of fiction and non-fiction books. He has been curator of several art exhibitions highlighting the connection between the psyche and art as well as President of the Section of Art and Psychiatry of the World Psychiatric Association and advisory committee member of the Sigmund Freud Foundation, Vienna.

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