Object Fantasies
Description
In the modern lexicon, 'object' refers to an entity that is materially constituted, spatially defined, and functionally determined. In contrast, the Latin word 'fantasia' has, since antiquity, referred to an apparition or the ability to imagine something that could be equally an object, an image, or a concept. This tension prompts further inquiry into the interrelations and differences between the experience of tangible objects (their perception and handling) and the creation of new objects (their conception and formation). What correlations exist between object fantasies, the self-consciousness of subjects, and the concrete and imagined conditions of human beings' social lives? By addressing this question, this interdisciplinary book opens new perspectives in the field of object studies.
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Philippe Cordez , Romana Kaske , Julia Saviello and Susanne Thürigen , Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- The Properties of Objects. Walt Disney's Fantasia
- Object Studies in Art History. Research Perspectives
- Die zwei Seiten der Münze. Etappen einer Erfindung (7.-4. Jahrhundert vor Christus)
- Im Zeichen der Sirene. Eine Rüstungsfantasie in Konrads von Würzburg Trojanerkrieg
- Bewegen und Beendigen. Anmerkungen zum Objektbegriff in der spätmittelalterlichen Philosophie
- A Pregnant Book? The Marian Symbolism of an Early Fifteenth-Century Missal of Saint-Martin-des-Champs, Paris
- Orb
- Schildkröte - the Turtle's Shield
- Shaping Posterity. Ingres's Violin
- Fantaisies de l'objectif. Les objets photographiés d'Henri Le Secq (ca. 1852-1860)
- The Surrealist Object and Photographic 'Plasticity'. Sakata Minoru's No Things (1939)
- The Missing Object and Object Fantasy. Thoughts on Ericka Beckman's Film Out of Hand (1981) from the Perspective of Developmental Psychology and Psychoanalysis
- Intermédialité des objets de science-fiction. À propos de quelques appareils de 'mémoire totale'
- Vom richtigen und falschen Abschaffen der Gegenstände. Modernistische Entledigungsfantasien und eine Denkalternative von Daniil Charms
- Realising Fantasies. Objects as Contexts, Processes and Presence
- Picture Credits
