Choreographies of the Living
Bioaesthetics in Literature, Art, and Performance
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 31 May 2018
- ISBN 9780190604417
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages200 pages
- Size 231x152x12 mm
- Weight 295 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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. Carrie Rohman's bioaesthetic framework describes how art-making binds us to other animals in literature, visual art, dance, and performance.
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Choreographies of the Living explores the implications of shifting from viewing art as an exclusively human undertaking to recognizing it as an activity that all living creatures enact. Carrie Rohman reveals the aesthetic impulse itself to be profoundly trans-species, and in doing so she revises our received wisdom about the value and functions of artistic capacities. Countering the long history of aesthetic theory in the West--beginning with Plato and Aristotle, and moving up through the recent claims of "neuroaesthetics"--Rohman challenges the likening of aesthetic experience to an exclusively human form of judgment.
Turning toward the animal in new frameworks for understanding aesthetic impulses, Rohman emphasizes a deep coincidence of humans' and animals' elaborations of fundamental life forces. Examining a range of literary, visual, dance, and performance works and processes by modernist and contemporary figures such as Isadora Duncan, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and Merce Cunningham, Rohman reconceives the aesthetic itself not as a distinction separating humans from other animals, but rather as a framework connecting embodied beings. Her view challenges our species to acknowledge the shared status of art-making, one of our most hallowed and formerly exceptional activities.
Carrie Rohman's Choreographies of the Living [is] a well-argued and physically attuned book that seeks to foster new interactions between animal studies and dance studies.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: Nude Vibrations: Isadora Duncan's Creatural Aesthetic
Chapter Two: Creative Incantations and Involutions in D. H. Lawrence
Chapter Three: Woolf's Floating Monkeys and Whirling Women
Chapter Four: Strange Prosthetics: Rachel Rosenthal's Rats and Rings
Chapter Five: UnCaging Cunningham's Animals
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
