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- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Copyright
- Copyright © by the University of California Press
- ISSN
- 0734-6018
- eISSN
- 1533-855X
- DOI
- 10.1525/rep.2010.111.1.88
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
The late nineteenth-century debates about forms of dressage and the correct representations of horses, using the circus as the major arena for testing and observation, provided a fertile ground for the development of Etienne-Jules Marey's physiology of locomotion. Marey claimed to revolutionize the field of locomotion studies with mechanically produced representations, yet, as this essay shows, his mechanical reform of the study of bodies in motion was countered by the persistence of older forms of animal observation and superseded by new anthropologies and psychologies of seeing.
Journal
Representations – University of California Press
Published: Aug 1, 2010