«Playing with Dead Things». Reborn Dolls, Art and Empathy

The paper aims to explore the Reborning, a widespread phenomenon in the US and Great Britain, although within a specific subculture, where craft women called Reborners rework a doll by disassembling it, painting it and adding all those elements (head and limbs made by sculptors, hair, skin blemishes...

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Main Author: Sara Damiani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2017-01-01
Series:piano b
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Online Access:https://pianob.unibo.it/article/view/6635