EK ACCESSION#: ICI 22323 TITLE: Essay about how some ‘revolutions are started’ in Mousse Art Journal (Mousse 59, Summer 2017) by Andrew Beradini DISCUSSION: We weep because we have the hearts to feel things. Our sadness is real and we have a right to it […]. … Continue readingWeeping, Dreaming, F*cking, Laughing
Kemp, Kemp, Martin and Marina Wallace; Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now (2000) ICI Shelf: Body First Line: “It may seem obvious that a detailed image of a dissected body, like Joseph Towne’s strikingly naturalistic model of … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: Spectacular Bodies
Conn, Steven; Body and Soul: Contemporary Art and healing(1998) ICI Shelf: Exhibitions First Line: “As we approach the end of the twentieth century, individuals seek new means of relief fro, the stress, disease, and environmental pollution that permeate our society.” Last Line: “Imagine being in … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: Body and Soul
Purcell, Rosamond; Special Cases: Natural Anomalies and Historical Monsters (1997) ICI Shelf: Museums Last Line: “And Kircher with his mirrors: there are, he asserts, “a thousand ways to deform a man,” and, if you use the methods he recommends, “no monster is so ugly whose … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: Special Cases
de Laurentis, Teresa; Technologies of Gender (1987) ICI Shelf: Body First Line: “And if words sound awkward or inelegant . . .” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (06-23-14) Accession #: ICI-00691
Butler, Judith; Gender trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) ICI Shelf: Body Last Line: “What other local strategies for engaging the “unnatural” might lead to the denaturalization of gender as such?” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (06-20-14) Accession #: … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: Gender Trouble
Bersani, Leo; The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art (1987) ICI Shelf: Body First Line: “How has Freud profited—or suffered—from all the attention lavished on him in America and in Europe, during the past fifteen or twenty years?” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: The Freudian Body
Sappington, Rodney and Tyler Stallings, eds.; Uncontrollable Bodies: Testimonies of Identity and Culture (1994) ICI Shelf: Body First Line: “I’m sick and I don’t want a cure.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (06-10-14) Accession #: ICI-00642
Gallagher, Catherine and Thomas Whitney, eds.; The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century (1987) ICI Shelf: Body First Line: “Scholars have only recently discovered that the human body itself has a history.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: The Making of the Modern Body
Haraway, Donna J.; Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The reinvention of Nature (1991) ICI Shelf: New Media First Line: “The concept of the body politic is not new.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (02-25-14) Accession #: ICI-00590