The Land of the Hunger Artists

The Land of the Hunger Artists
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9781009379595
ISBN-13 : 1009379593
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Book Synopsis The Land of the Hunger Artists by : Agustí Nieto-Galan

Download or read book The Land of the Hunger Artists written by Agustí Nieto-Galan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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