The Body as a Medium of Expression: Essays Based on a Course of Lectures given at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
by Benthall, Jonathan, and Polhemus, Ted (Joint Editors)
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London: Allen Lane; Penguin Books, 1975. 339 pages, [8] leaves of plates, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. CONTENTS: A prospectus, as published in Studio International, July 1972, by Jonathan Benthall; Social bodies, by Ted Polhemus; Background considerations to the study of the body as a medium of 'expression', by Ray L. Birdwhistell; The body and social metaphor, by Donald G. MacRae; Objective sign and subjective meaning, by Roger Poole; The comparative study of non-verbal communication, by R.A. Hinde; The syntaxes of bodily communication, by Michael Argyle; Paralinguistics, by David Crystal; The communicative hand, by J.A.V. Bates; Gestural-sign language and the study of non-verbal communication, by Aaron V. Cicourel; The expressive style of a motor-bike culture, by Paul E. Willis; Race and the embodiment of culture, by John F. Szwed; The body in Tantra, by Philip S. Rawson; Gay technology and the body politics, by John O'Neill; The image of God, or Two yards of skin, by John Broadbent.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.
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- Title
- The Body as a Medium of Expression: Essays Based on a Course of Lectures given at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
- Author
- Benthall, Jonathan, and Polhemus, Ted (Joint Editors)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0713909862
- ISBN 13
- 9780713909869
- Publisher
- Allen Lane; Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1975
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- European / British & Irish; European / 9. Contemporary; Movements / Body Art;
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