Isbn: 9783899553321 - Doppelganger: Images of the Human Being (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Oversized.

Hardcover. Condition: VG-. used hardcover copy in illustrated boards, no jacket, as issued. light shelfwear, corners perhaps slightly bumped/worn. fore upper corner has a very small tear. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

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Hardcover. Condition: Très bon. Edition 2011. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Edition 2011. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Condition: Good. Original pictorial boards,illustrated with numerous (full page) colour photographs, 4to.; Top corners spine slightly bumped.

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Hardcover. Condition: gut. 2011. Doppelganger: Images of the Human Being In deutscher Sprache. pages.

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Hardcover. Condition: New. The digital age has fundamentally changed traditional notions of who we are and how we wish to be perceived. The music producer Chris Walla puts it this way: Confronted with our significantly more banal everyday life, we re measuring our actual selves against our online selves with hopeful resignation. Doppelganger presents current trends in the depiction of human beings. In today s images and sculptures, personal identities are being intensified,altered, or created through the use of techniques such as deformation and construction/deconstruction as well as the obliteration of classical proportions, visual traditions, and what is generally considered beautiful and fashionable. The book shows permutations of the outer human shell created with costumes and masks as well as photo-technical and artistic manipulation. These take their visual cues from such diverse aesthetics as Dada, surrealism, high tech, cutting-edge fashion design, and the folklore of othercultures. Masquerades and artificial characters are used imaginatively to enhance and obscure true identities. With examples ranging from the intimate to the radical, Doppelganger explores how many or how few effects the depiction of a person can take in order to function as such. In doing so, the book shows that the unique visual appearances being created today often reveal more about the identities of their subjects and creators than their real faces ever could.…