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Agustí Nieto-Galan - The Land of the Hunger Artists, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

The Land of the Hunger Artists

Science, Spectacle and Authority, c.1880-1922

Av Agustí Nieto-Galan

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Beskrivning
From the 1880s to the 1920s, hunger artists - professional fasters - lived on the fringes of public spectacle and academic experiment. Agustí Nieto-Galan presents the history of this phenomenon as popular urban spectacle and subject of scientific study, showing how hunger artists acted as mediators between the human and the social body. Doctors, journalists, impresarios , artists, and others used them to reinforce their different philosophical views, scientific schools, political ideologies, cultural values, and professional interests. The hunger artists generated heated debates on objectivity and medical pluralism, and fierce struggles over authority, recognition, and prestige. Set on the fringes of the freak show culture of the nineteenth century and the scientific study of physiology laboratories, Nieto-Galan explores the story of the public exhibition of hunger, emaciated bodies, and their enormous impact on the public sphere of their time.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-11-23
  • Mått: 155 x 235 x 19 mm
  • Vikt: 590 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 282
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781009379588
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Agustí Nieto-Galan is Professor of History of Science at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), ICREA Acadèmia Fellow, and director of the Institut d'Història de la Ciència (iHC) at the UAB.

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'Agustí Nieto-Galan's book offers the first in-depth and scholarly account of the hunger artists of Italy after unification. Drawing on the rich body of texts, images, and goods that marked the spectacular fasts of these individuals on their global trajectories, he skillfully balances the perspectives of rapt publics, doubting doctors, enthusiastic impresarios, and an expanding media culture. Diverse groups of commentators contended over the veracity or fraudulence of the capabilities of their extraordinary bodies, as well as over what profits could be made out of them. In a period that gave rise to most of our modern categories of food requirements and eating disorders, these men came to exemplify both the limits and the potential of nutrition science, both inside and outside the laboratory. A fascinating book that stands at the intersection of many areas of historical interest.' Emma Spary, University of Cambridge

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