body

[Claudia Westermann]

perhaps of interest..........................................
these just came to my mind - greetings Claudia


Fragments for a History of the Human Body (1989), combined
essays and photo dossiers to study the
body's relationship to divinity, bestiality, and the machine.
ed. by Michel Feher /
in three parts
zone books

Forty-eight essays are collected in three volumes of this periodical. The 
essays, especially comissioned for this project, include the work of 
historians, anthropologists, literary critics, philosphers and art 
historians. Encompassing art, literature and society from antiquity to the 
20th century with a primary focus on the human body from above, from below, 
inside and out. An astonishing attempt to create the shape, substance, 
theory and mythology of the human body. Includes a 100-page bibliography 
drawing on medicine, religion, alchemy, philosophy and architecture.


Incorporations (1992), studies the increasing overlap of humans and machines.
zone books, in the US by MIT

reviews
http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/mod/2.3br_crary.html

http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr2/r2brigham.htm



Puppen, Körper, Automaten, Phantasmen der Moderne

[erscheint anläßlich der Ausstellung Puppen, Körper,
  Automaten - Phantasmen der Moderne, Kunstsammlung
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, vom 24. Juli bis 17. Oktober 1999]

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf. Hrsg. von
Pia Müller-Tamm ... Mit Beitr. von Horst Bredekamp ...

Köln : Oktagon,1999

isbn: 3-89611-073-X