Choreographies of the living : bioaesthetics in literature, art, and performance /

Choreographies of the Living explores the shift from viewing art as an exclusively human undertaking to recognizing it as an activity that all living creatures enact. Rohman's bioaesthetic framework describes how art-making binds us to other animals in literature, visual art, dance and performa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rohman, Carrie (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Nude vibrations: Isadora Duncan's creatural aesthetic
  • Creative incantations and involutions in D. H. Lawrence
  • Woolf's floating monkeys and whirling women
  • Strange prosthetics: Rachel Rosenthal's rats and rings
  • Uncaging Cunningham's animals.