Art: Body work

Nature's work of art. The human body as image of the world

The art of intertwining life and work.

1598 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 20, No. 9, September 2014 P Jaima grew up in rural northern Thailand, where village life, work, and worship were all intertwined. His parents were wood carvers at the local Buddhist temple, where at age 10 he began studying traditional northern Thai Buddhist scriptures. Upon entering the sixth school grade at age 12, Jaima became a Budd...

A different body: diagnostic imaging and body art.

An important dimension to the 20th century becoming a “biologic era” had been the development of diagnostic imaging. It began at the end of the 19th century, when Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923) discovered x-rays; he was awarded the Nobel Prize for this in 1901 (1 ). George Ansell and Joseph Rotblat, working in Liverpool, visualized the thyroid in 1948, using radioiodine. The American engineer Hal ...

State of art in Body Tracking

S t a t e o f a r t i n B o d y T r a c k i n g C h a b a n e D j e r a b a Technical report of LIFL – 6-2005

The duality of art: body and soul.

Bullot & Reber (B&R) make a strong case for the role of causal reasoning in the appreciation of artwork. Although I agree that an artistic design stance is important for art appreciation, I suggest that it is a subset of a more general framework for evaluating artworks as the causal extensions of individuals, which includes inferences about the creator's mind, as well as more physical notions o...