{"product_id":"dolls-photography-and-the-late-lacan-9780367445027","title":"Dolls Photography and the Late Lacan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ethis fascinating new book, Rosalinda Quintieri addresses some of the key questions of visual theory concerning our unending fascination with simulacra by evaluating the recent return of the life-size doll in European and American visual culture. Through a focus on the contemporary photographic and cinematic forms of this figure and a critical mobilisation of its anthropological complexity, this book offers a new critical understanding of this classical aesthetic motif as a way to explore the relevance that doubling, fantasy and simulation hold in our contemporary culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuintieri explores the figure of the inanimate human double as an inhuman partner, reflecting on contemporary visuality as the field of a hypermodern, post-Oedipal aesthetic. Through a series of case studies that blur traditional boundaries between practices (photography, performance, sculpture, painting, documentary) and between genres (comedy, drama, fairy tale), Quintieri puts in contrast the n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rosalinda Quintieri’s exciting and timely book promises to revitalize critical analysis in visual culture through her discussion of contemporary modes of techno-scopophilia. Deploying neglected theoretical resources from the ‘late Lacan’ in which objects of \u003ci\u003eextimacy \u003c\/i\u003ebecome essential parts of our being, Quintieri’s book engages with and develops the logic of recent photographic work deploying dolls, mannikins and marionettes that break with the Freudian paradigm of the ‘uncanny’. In Quintieri’s analysis the ‘double’ no longer simply provokes a crisis of identity and meaning but opens the way to perverse pleasures of human posterity in which the post-human follows the (an)aesthetic trajectory of the doll.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e– \u003cstrong\u003eScott Wilson\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eScott Walker and the Song of the One-All-Alone\u003c\/i\u003e. (Bloomsbury, 2020)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: “Quasi-subjects”: the hypermodern double between flatness and affective excess 1. The modern \u003ci\u003edoppelgänger\u003c\/i\u003e: enjoyment as subversion 2. \u003ci\u003eEnjoy \u003c\/i\u003e(you must)!: Olivier Rebufa and Barbie’s \u003ci\u003edreamlife \u003c\/i\u003e3. \u003ci\u003eSilicone Love\u003c\/i\u003e: photography as \u003ci\u003ede-Realisation \u003c\/i\u003e4. Laurie Simmons: pictures beyond the \u003ci\u003egaze \u003c\/i\u003e5. \u003ci\u003eLars and the Real Girl\u003c\/i\u003e: a tale of the \u003ci\u003eNew Father \u003c\/i\u003eConclusions: doubles beyond the uncanny\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017908355415,"sku":"9780367445027","price":35.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367445027.jpg?v=1750775044","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dolls-photography-and-the-late-lacan-9780367445027","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}