Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within contemporary art. Engaging with issues of voice, embodiment, power, and projection, the case studies assembled in this volume span a range of media from painting, sculpture, and photography to installation, performance, architecture, and video. Importantly, they both examine and enact ventriloqual practices, and do so as a means of interrogating and performatively bearing out contemporary conceptions of authorship, subjectivity, and performance. Put otherwise, the chapters in this book oscillate seamlessly between art history, theory, and criticism through both analytical and performative means. Across twelve essays on ventriloquism in contemporary art, the authors, who are curators, historians, and artists, shine light on this outdated practice, repositioning it as a conspicuous and meaningful trend within a range of artistic practices today. This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, media studies, performance, museum/curatorial studies, and theater.

Ventriloquism --- Performing arts

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book provides a history of ventriloquism and the disembodied voice. It tracks the subject from its beginnings through early Christian writers, the voice in mysticism witchcraft and the figure of the ventriloquist.

Ventriloquism --- History --- Social aspects --- -Ventriloquism --- -Amusements --- Elocution --- Voice --- -History --- Amusements --- Buikspreken. --- Culturele aspecten. --- Ventriloquism. --- History. --- Social aspects. --- Ventriloquism - History --- Ventriloquism - Social aspects --- Ventriloquie --- Histoire --- Aspect social

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Magic tricks --- Handbooks --- manuals --- etc. --- Ventriloquism

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Ventriloquism --- Ventriloquists --- Fatherhood --- Amusements --- Elocution --- Voice --- Actors --- Entertainers --- Parenthood

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

How do objects 'speak' to us? What happens to authorship when voice is projected into inanimate objects? How can one articulate an object into speech? Is the inarticulate body necessarily silent? These are just some of the questions brought up by this unique and unusual collection of essays, which presents subjects and categories often overlooked by the disciplines of art history, visual culture, theatre history and comparative literature. Drawing from and expanding upon the 'Performing Objects, Animating Images' academic session run by the Henry Moore Institute at the Association of Art Historians conference, held in London in 2003, this book presents thirteen essays that bring together a multidisciplinary approach to the animated object. Contributions range from literal accounts of magic lanterns, tableaux vivants, puppets and ventriloquist dummies, to the more abstract notions of voice displacement in audio art and authorship projection in writing machines. The contributors come from diverse backgrounds in art history, cultural history, comparative literature, and artistic, theatrical and curatorial practice, and all tackle the issue of 'articulate objects' from a range of lively and unexpected perspectives.

Arts, Modern --- Arts, Modern. --- Klang. --- Kunst. --- Mechanisches Kunstwerk. --- Object (Aesthetics) --- Object (Aesthetics). --- Objet (Esthétique) --- Performance --- Puppet theater. --- Sound in art --- Sound in art. --- Stimme. --- Technologie et arts --- Technology and the arts --- Technology and the arts. --- Ventriloquie --- Ventriloquism --- Ventriloquism. --- Voice in art --- Voice in art. --- Voix dans l'art