We Are All Astronauts
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We Are All Astronauts

The Image of the Space Traveler in Arts and Media

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We Are All Astronauts

The Image of the Space Traveler in Arts and Media

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"We are all astronauts", the American architect and thinker Richard Buckminster Fuller wrote in 1968 in his book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, where he compared Earth to a spaceship, provided only with exhaustible resources while flying through space.These words show the presence the phenomenon of the astronaut and the cosmonaut had in the public mind from the second half of the twentieth century on: Buckminster Fuller was able to drive his point home by asking his audience to identify with one of the most prominent figures in the public sphere then: the space traveler. At the same time, Buckminster Fuller's words themselves seem to have played a significant role in further shaping the space-exploring human as a symbol and an image of humankind in general.The twelve contributions in this book by authors from the fields of literature, music, politics, history, the visual arts, film, computer games, comics, social sciences, and media theory track the development, changes and dynamics of this symbol by analyzing the various images of the astronaut and the cosmonaut as constructed throughout the different decades of space exploration, from its beginning to the present day.

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Yes, you can access We Are All Astronauts by Marc Blancher,Marc Bonner,Colleen Boyle,Martin Butler,Jörg Hartmann,Alexander Hauk,Sophia Hauk,Thomas Hensel,Matthew H. Hersch,Ansgar Oswald,Nils Daniel Peiler,Umberto Rossi, Henry Keazor in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Art & History of Art. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher
Neofelis
Year
2019
ISBN
9783958082632
Topic
Art
Subtopic
History of Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Keazor: “We Are All Astronauts”
  6. Hersch: Redemptive Space
  7. Rossi: All We Mad Starmen
  8. Oswald: The Space Traveler
  9. Boyle: Through the Eyes of the Astronaut
  10. Hartmann: Female Space Travelers in Science Fiction Films 1898–2017
  11. Blancher: “Let’s discover Space!”
  12. Peiler: Backlash of the Future
  13. Bonner: ‘Climb the Penrose Stairs to Merge with the (In)Finite’
  14. Butler: The Future that Never Was
  15. Bonner, Hensel: Astronaut and Avatar
  16. Table of Figures
  17. Colophon