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The Body in Pieces: The Fragment as a Metaphor of Modernity Linda Nochlin
Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Fragmentation is typical of the postmodern period as historian Linda Nochlin argues in her book, The Body in Pieces. Alan Wall on Robert Musil's 'Essayism and Modernity'. The Neolithic from which have survived few pieces of pottery, some flint tools, some pits and so on, the present is full of material culture. Jan 3, 2014 - In contrast to e.g. We all appreciate fragments, and fragment poetry. Tusk goes right through his body. He appears to me, that one, equal to the gods, .. Mar 10, 2009 - As historian Martin Kemp has written, in observing the connections of medical science and art, "No field is richer in metaphor than the body." (1) Fragmented Body. (4) I have seen recent medical texts without a single whole body image. Jun 30, 2012 - The word heterotopia is first used by Foucault in his preface of The Order of Things (1966) for which the topos (space) involved is a metaphorical space in the language. Few months later, he dedicates one of his two lectures for the radio broadcast France Culture (audio at the end of the article) -the other one being the Utopian Body quoted in another article- to this concept. Apr 15, 2013 - The famous “lion man” was carved out of a piece of tusk, its bandy legged shape taking the hollow inside the tusk into account – there again, working with the shape that is already there. Sappho – a modern by comparison – wrote this some 20,000 years later: FRAGMENT 31. Feb 12, 2013 - Almost all cognitive functions are affected by this horrific disorder: perceptions of space and time fragment; linguistic expression becomes stuttered and aimless (this is usually referred to as 'word salad'); and emotions become The Menger sponge is, of course, a metaphor, but it seems a particularly powerful one to help non-sufferers understand what schizophrenia is really about so that we can perhaps begin to try and move beyond the Dr.