Full Description
The notion of a person--or even an object--having a "double" has been explored in the visual arts for ages, and in myriad ways: portraying the body and its soul, a woman gazing at her reflection in a pool, or a man overwhelmed by his own shadow. In this edited collection focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century western art, scholars analyze doppelgangers, alter egos, mirror images, double portraits and other pairings, human and otherwise, appearing in a large variety of artistic media. Artists whose works are discussed at length include Richard Dadd, Salvador Dali, Egon Schiele, Frida Kahlo, the creators of Superman, and Nicola Costantino, among many others.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction (Mary D. Edwards)
The Idea of the Double in Text and/or Image from Antiquity to the End
of the 20th Century (Mary D. Edwards)
The Doppelganger in Richard Dadd's Life and Art (Karen Stock)
Doubles, Doppelgangers and Desire: The Formation of Female Identity in the Photographs of Lady Hawarden (Jenny O. Ramirez)
Venus's Double: Investigating Similitude in Burne-Jones's Pygmalion Cycle (Sarah J. Lippert)
Mirror Symbolism, Sexuality and Interiority in the Art of Fernand Khnopff (Natalia Vieyra)
Narcissus in the Art of Waterhouse, Dalí, Kusama, Collishaw and Muñoz (Mary D. Edwards)
Egon Schiele's Double Self-Portraits as Gedankenmalerei (Lori Felton)
Magritte and the Painted Double: Repetition as Subversion (Sandra Zalman)
Double Take: Jean Dubuffet, Antonin Artaud and Balinese Costume (Stephanie Chadwick)
Doubling, Pairing and Halving in Some Self-Portraits by Frida Kahlo (Mary D. Edwards)
Superman, Disguised as Mild-Mannered Clark Kent: Queerness,
Jewish Masculinity and the Superhero's Alter Ego as Marginalized Other (Megan Fowler)
Morrisseau's Thunderbird with Inner Spirit (circa 1978) (Mary D. Edwards)
Happy Hour: The Pairings of Jasper Johns and Felix Gonzalez-Torres
(Christian Wurst)
Reflections on Nature and Self in the Work of Timm Ulrichs (Curt Germundson)
Uncanny Objects: Bruce Nauman's Aesthetic of Anxiety (Maxim Leonid Weintraub)
Strange Selves: The Televised Double in Bjørn Melhus's Das Zauberglas (Ann Jacobson)
Tracing the Uncanny: Francis Alÿs' Doppelganger (1999-present)
and Déjà Vu (1996-present) Series (Andrés David Montenegro Rosero)
Doubling the Odds: Pregnancy, Femininity and Embodiment
in Nicola Costantino's Trailer (2010) (Sophie Halart)
Afterword
Mary D. Edwards
About the Contributors
Index
