Includes essays originating in the conference session, Performing objects/Animating images, staged at the Association of Art Historians' (AAH) annual conference at Birkbeck College and University College, London, in April 2003. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Aura Satz and Jon Wood -- Making statues speak : Bernini and Pasquino / Genevieve Warwick -- Fables and follies : Florian's The monkey showing the magic lantern and the failure of imitation / Helen Weston -- Incidents of the breath : in pneumatic and electric ventriloquisms / Steven Connor -- Arthur Worsley and the uncanny valley / Brian Catling -- With hidden noise : sculpture, video and ventriloquism / Jon Wood -- The inner voice : interview / Asta Gröting and Stella Rollig -- The inner voice : dead air / Tim Etchells -- From my cold dead hand or Méta-matics : the removed gesture and Louise Montalescot's painting machine / Edward Allington -- Tableaux vivants : inside the statue / Aura Satz -- Love translated : the Little Players / Kenneth Gross -- A postcool everywoman / Victoria Nelson -- Reconnaissance/Méconnaissance : the work of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller / Rebecca Duclos -- Vent diaries / Ian Breakwell.
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