INTRODUCTION
Alessandra Violi, Barbara Grespi, Andrea Pinotti, Pietro Conte, Learning from Stone
I. STATUE: THE IMAGINARY OF UNCERTAIN PETRIFICATION
1. Greta Perletti, Theatre and Memory: The Body-as-Statue in Early Modern Culture
2. Silvia Romani, Translated Bodies: A 'Cartographic' Approach
3. Barbara Grespi, Pantomime in Stone: Performance of the Pose and Animal Camouflage
4. Michele Bertolini, Animated Statues and Petrified Bodies: A Journey Inside Fantasy Cinema
5. Vinzenz Hediger, The Ephemeral Cathedral: Bodies of Stone and Configurations of Film
II. MATTER: SIZE, HARDNESS, DURATION
1. Michele Cometa, Bodies That Matter: Miniaturization and the Origin(s) of 'Art'
2. Elio Grazioli, Brancusi's 'Sculpture for the Blind'
3. Cristina Baldacci, Ephemeral Bodies: The 'Candles' of Urs Fischer
4. Pietro Conte, Cinema, Phenomenology, and Hyperrealism
5. Antonio Somaini, The Celluloid and the Death Mask: Bazin's and Eisenstein's Image Anthropology
III. CORPSE: FOSSILS, AUTOICONS, REVENANTS
1. Luisella Farinotti, Funeral Elegy: Post Mortem Figures and Redeemed Bodies, in Images
2. Barbara Le Maître, On Jack Torrance as a Fossil Form
3. Anna Luppi, Technical Images and the Transformation of Matter in Eighteenth-Century Tuscany
4. Alessandra Violi, Glass, Mixed Media, Stone: the Bodily Stuffs of Suspended Animation
5. Luca Malavasi, Bodies' Strange Stories: Les Revenants and The Leftovers
IV. MONUMENT: EMBODYING AND GRAFTING
1. Filippo Fimiani, The Impassibly Fleshly, the Statue of the Impossible
2. Elisabeth Bronfen, Frozen into Allegory: Cleopatra's Cultural Survival
3. Federica Villa, The Orphan Image
4. Andrea Pinotti, The Well-Tempered Memorial: Abstraction, Anthropomorphism, Embodiment
5. Sara Damiani, Monuments of the Heart: Living Tombs and Organic Memories in Contemporary Culture
Index