Getting Under the Skin, or, How Faces Have Become Obsolete
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3856485 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bernadette Wegenstein (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 221-259 |
| Publication date | 2002-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Configurations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1063-1801 • E-ISSN: 1080-6520 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/con.2003.0018 |
| OpenAlex | W2107128169 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 13 |
Over the last two decades, the discourse around and about the body, as represented in popular science, in the arts (especially performance art), 2 in theory and cultural studies, and even in the realm of advertisement and fashion (e.g., the new cosmetic lines of high-fashion designers such as Helmut Lang), has gotten more and more "under the skin." The importance of outer appearances to the representation of the body has receded as the inner body has come to be discovered, to be relevant, and ever more present. Organs, tissue, cells, and blood—once the denizens of a terra incognita of highly specialized medical knowledge—have in recent times come into circulation as markers of individual and group identity. Moreover, since the 1990s the inner body has been recorded and "eternalized" through new technologies—such as the Visible Human Project, the Human Genome Project, and the Anatomy Art of Gunther Von Hagens—that have indeed changed knowledge of and approaches toward the human body. [End Page 221]
Aesthetics · Art · Biology · Human body · Political science · Realm · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Empathy and Medical Education · History · History of Medicine Studies · Law · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Anatomy
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2014 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |