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dc.contributor.advisorWise, Patricia
dc.contributor.authorVoisey, Rebecca Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-23T02:58:06Z
dc.date.available2018-01-23T02:58:06Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.doi10.25904/1912/1010
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/367991
dc.description.abstractThis thesis proposes an alternative practice for looking at, understanding, imagining and representing bodies, and a potential context for fostering and realising such a practice. This alternative practice could transform our use of images in order to produce thoughtful, empathic and compassionate responses to bodies. Such a practice, as an ethical and emotional mode of engagement with body images, strives to create connections and reconnections between subject and object, self and other, individual and communal; to reconnect that which is thought, felt and experienced with the materiality of bodies. This dissertation examines the capacity for particular types of body imagery in contemporary visual art to reveal alternative practices of engagement. The bodies that feature in the images discussed reference and/or use the medicalised body rendered as object (drawing on medical and scientific information, practices and imaging-technology). Through these discussions a central paradox is revealed: that the body rendered as object, recontextualised in contemporary art, generates affective intensity and reconnects object with subject.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherGriffith University
dc.publisher.placeBrisbane
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dc.subject.keywordsBody image in art
dc.subject.keywordsBody image and medicine
dc.subject.keywordsFeeling and human bodiy
dc.subject.keywordsContemporary art
dc.titlePathways of Felt-visuality in the New Wunderkammer: Producing Empathic Engagements with Body Imagery from Contemporary Art and Medicine
dc.typeGriffith thesis
gro.facultyArts, Education and Law
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dc.contributor.otheradvisorKeane, Jondi
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gro.identifier.gurtIDgu1454982973420
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gro.thesis.degreelevelThesis (PhD Doctorate)
gro.thesis.degreeprogramDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
gro.departmentSchool of Humanities
gro.griffith.authorVoisey, Rebecca Elizabeth


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