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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Interesting to read and full of creative ideas,
This review is from: The Dream of the Moving Statue (Paperback)
The book covers a broad gamut of subjects and genres (film, poetry, etc.), and presents many interesting ideas. It is a pleasure to read for literature and visual art lovers alike. Many of the analyses employ a Freudian theory approach. I found the text useful for my doctoral research on animation of objects, specifically because it made me aware of the difficulty in differentiating between animation that is inherent in the object versus animation generated in the eyes (and brain) of the beholders.
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One of the strangest and most interesting books of literary criticism of the last forty years,
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This review is from: The Dream of the Moving Statue (Paperback)
This is one of the few books of criticism which I return to for inspiration: it reminds me why I decided to become a literary critic. The book constructs a quirky pantheon of stories about statues and bodies: the artists discussed include Shakespeare, Charlie Chaplin, Wittgenstein, Pushkin, and Freud, among others. The arguments are always both surprising and wholly persuasive, and the writing has a sumptuous elegance. I am delighted that the book is being reprinted in paperback, and I hope that it gets the attention it deserves.
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The Dream of the Moving Statue by Kenneth Gross (Paperback - May 30, 2006)
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