The Sculpture Machine: Physical Culture and Body Politics in the Age of Empire

by Michael Budd

Book Overview

During the early 1800s, inventor James Watt occupied his final years attempting to develop a mechanical system for copying sculptures of the human body. Though Watt's sculpture machine was never completed (and would, in any event, have eventually been made obsolete with the advent of photography), Watt's quest serves as an incisive metaphor for the subsequent body politics of the nineteenth century. As the modern world emerged, contemporary conceptions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814712665
• ISBN13: 9780814712665
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"