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Female Body Image in Contemporary Art

Author : Emily L. Newman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351859153
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Female Body Image in Contemporary Art written by Emily L. Newman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous contemporary artists, particularly female artists, have chosen to examine the idealization of the female body. In this crucial book, Emily L. Newman focuses on a number of key themes including obesity, anorexia, bulimia, dieting, self-harm, and female body image. Many artists utilize their own bodies in their work, and in the act of trying to critique the diet industry, they also often become complicit, as they strive to lose weight themselves. Making art and engaging eating disorder communities (in real life and online) often work to perpetuate the illnesses of themselves or others. A core group of artists has worked to show bodies that are outside the norm, paralleling the rise of fat activism in the 1990s and 2000s. Interwoven throughout this inclusive study are related interdisciplinary concerns including sociology, popular culture, and feminism.

Weighing the Body

Author : Emily L. Newman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Weighing the Body written by Emily L. Newman and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous contemporary artists, particularly female artists, have at key moments in their careers chosen to examine the issue of female body image. The preoccupation with weight is preeminently visual, so artistic interventions can be particularly powerful. Yet no comprehensive study exists of artwork concerned with pandemic issues such as obesity, anorexia, bulimia, dieting, or female body image broadly. In this dissertation, I examine significant examples of such projects by locating works by key artists in social and historical context, including that of evolving feminist discourses on the body: Laura Aguilar (b. 1959), Eleanor Antin (b. 1935), Vanessa Beecroft (b. 1969), Maureen Connor (b. 1947), Lauren Greenfield (b. 1966), Ariane Lopez-Huici (b. 1945), Leonard Nimoy (b. 1931), L.A. Raeven (twins Liesbeth and Angelique Raeven, who work as a singular artist, b. 1971), Faith Ringgold (b. 1930), Rachel Rosenthal (b. 1926), Barbara Smith (1931), and Jana Sterbak (b. 1955).

The Female Body in the Looking-Glass

Author : Basia Sliwinska
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786720086
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The Female Body in the Looking-Glass written by Basia Sliwinska and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his theory of the 'mirror stage', the psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan argued that the female body is defined by its lack of male attributes. Within this framework, he described female sexuality primarily as an absence, and assumed female subordination to the male gaze. However, what happens if one follows Jean Baudrillard's advice to 'swallow the mirror' and go through the 'looking-glass' to explore the reflections and realities that we encounter in the cultural mirror, which reflects the culture in question: its norms, ideals and values? What if the beautiful is inverted and becomes ugly; and the ugly is considered beautiful or shape-shifts into something conventionally thought of as beautiful? These are the fundamental questions that Basia Sliwinska poses in this important new enquiry into gender identity and the politics of vision in contemporary women's art.Through an innovative discussion of the mirror as a metaphor, Sliwinska reveals how the post-1989 practices of woman artists from both sides of the former Iron Curtain - such as Joanna Rajkowska, Marina Abramovic, Boryana Rossa, Natalia LL and Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkacova - go beyond gender binaries and instead embrace otherness and difference by playing with visual tropes of femininity. Their provocative works offer alternative representations of the female body to those seen in the cultural mirror. Their art challenges and deconstructs patriarchal representations of the social and cultural 'other', associated with visual tropes of femininity such as Alice in Wonderland, Venus and Medusa. The Female Body in the Looking-Glass makes a refreshing, radical intervention into art theory and cultural studies by offering new theoretical concepts such as 'the mirror' and 'genderland' (inspired by Alice's adventures in Wonderland) as critical tools with which we can analyse and explain recent developments in women's art.

Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

Author : Catherine McCormack
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393542092
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies written by Catherine McCormack and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives. Venus, maiden, wife, mother, monster—women have been bound so long by these restrictive roles, codified by patriarchal culture, that we scarcely see them. Catherine McCormack illuminates the assumptions behind these stereotypes whether writ large or subtly hidden. She ranges through Western art—think Titian, Botticelli, and Millais—and the image-saturated world of fashion photographs, advertisements, and social media, and boldly counters these depictions by turning to the work of women artists like Morisot, Ringgold, Lacy, and Walker, who offer alternative images for exploring women’s identity, sexuality, race, and power in more complex ways.

Marilyn Minter

Author : Bill Arning
Publisher : Gregory R. Miller
ISBN 13 : 9781941366042
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Marilyn Minter written by Bill Arning and published by Gregory R. Miller. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co. ... on the occasion of the exhibition Marilyn Minter: pretty/dirty. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, April 17-August 2, 2015; Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, September 18, 2015-January 31, 2016; [and two other places]"--Colophon.

The Body in Women's Art Now: Embodied

Author : Philippa Found
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Body in Women's Art Now: Embodied written by Philippa Found and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Body in Women's Art Now is a three part series of touring art exhibitions, curated by Philippa Found, Gallery Director of ROLLO Contemporary Art, examining key themes in women's art of the last decade in which the body is central.

Body Image

Author : Emma Sharps
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book Body Image written by Emma Sharps and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My thesis and the corresponding exhibition will look at contemporary artists, specifically Jen Davis, Lauren Greenfield, Leslie Lyons and Licia Priest, who examine and oppose the negative effects that art and pop culture have had on perceptions of the female body and, especially, on women's perceptions of their own bodies. Focusing on the last three decades, I will contextualize my exhibition by examining art historical and feminist texts that analyze representations of female bodies. My project will be informed by contemporary psychological and sociological studies of women's attitudes towards their bodies: Joan Brumberg's The Body Project, Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth and Susan Bordo's Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body. The exhibition will encompass multiple media works (photography, sculpture, and painted glass), which are mainly created by women artists. My goal is to evaluate the current discussion concerning the spectacle of women and its impact on womanhood and to see the ways in which the recent developments in gender studies can help us renegotiate the terms of body politics.

The Body in Contemporary Art

Author : Sally O'Reilly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Body in Contemporary Art written by Sally O'Reilly and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new volume in the acclaimed World of Art series: featuring work across a range of media that represents the human body.

Modern Women Artists in the Nordic Countries, 1900–1960

Author : Kerry Greaves
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000370984
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Modern Women Artists in the Nordic Countries, 1900–1960 written by Kerry Greaves and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This transnational volume examines innovative women artists who were from, or worked in, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sápmi, and Sweden from the emergence of modernism until the feminist movement took shape in the 1960s. The book addresses the culturally specific conditions that shaped Nordic artists’ contributions, brings the latest methodological and feminist approaches to bear on Nordic art history, and engages a wide international audience through the contributors’ subject matter and analysis. Rather than introducing a new history of "rediscovered" women artists, the book is more concerned with understanding the mechanisms and structures that affected women artists and their work, while suggesting alternative ways of constructing women’s art histories. Artists covered include Else Alfelt, Pia Arke, Franciska Clausen, Jessie Kleemann, Hilma af Klint, Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Greta Knutson, Aase Texmon Rygh, Hannah Ryggen, Júlíana Sveinsdóttir, Ellen Thesleff, and Astri Aasen. The target audience includes scholars working in art history, cultural studies, feminist studies, gender studies, curatorial studies, Nordic studies, postcolonial studies, and visual studies.

Body Image and Identity in Contemporary Societies

Author : Ekaterina Sukhanova
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317530195
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Body Image and Identity in Contemporary Societies written by Ekaterina Sukhanova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular interest in body image issues has grown dramatically in recent years, due to an emphasis on individual responsibility and self-determination in contemporary society as well as the seemingly limitless capacities of modern medicine; however body image as a separate field of academic inquiry is still relatively young. The contributors of Body Image and Identity in Contemporary Societies explore the complex social, political and aesthetic interconnections between body image and identity. It is an in-depth study that allows for new perspectives in the analysis of contemporary visual art and literature but also reflects on how these social constructs inform clinical treatment. Sukhanova and Thomashoff bring together contributions from psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, psychiatrists and scholars in the fields of the social sciences and the humanities to explore representations of the body in literature and the arts across different times and cultures. The chapters analyse the social construction of the 'ideal' body in terms of beauty, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class and disability, from a broadly psychoanalytic perspective, and traces the mechanisms which define the role of the physical appearance in the formation of identity and the assumption of social roles. Body Image and Identity in Contemporary Societies' unique interdisciplinary outlook aims to bridge the current gap between clinical observations and research in semiotic theory. It will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, art therapists, art theorists, academics in the humanities and social sciences, and those interested in an interdisciplinary approach to the issues of body image and identity. Ekaterina Sukhanova is University Director of Academic Program Review at the City University of New York USA. She serves as Scientific Secretary of the Section for Art and Psychiatry and the Section of Art and Psychiatry of the World Psychiatric Association. She is also engaged in interdisciplinary research on cultural constructs of mental health and illness and curates exhibits of art brut as a vehicle for fighting stigma. Hans-Otto Thomashoff was born in Germany and lives in Vienna. He is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, art historian and author of fiction and non-fiction books. He has been curator of several art exhibitions highlighting the connection between the psyche and art as well as president of the section of Art and Psychiatry of the World Psychiatric Association and advisory committee member of the Sigmund Freud Foundation, Vienna.

The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art

Author : Ann Millett-Gallant
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230109977
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art written by Ann Millett-Gallant and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes the representation of disabled and disfigured bodies in contemporary art and its various contexts, from art history to photography to medical displays to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century freak show.

French Women Orientalist Artists, 1861–1956

Author : Mary Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000405346
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book French Women Orientalist Artists, 1861–1956 written by Mary Kelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first full-length study dedicated to French women Orientalist artists. Mary Kelly has gathered primary documentation relating to seventy-two women artists whose works of art can be placed in the canon of French Orientalism between 1861 and 1956. Bringing these artists together for the first time and presenting close contextual analyses of works of art, attention is given to artists’ cross-cultural interactions with painted/sculpted representations of the Maghreb particularly in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. Using an interdisciplinary ‘open platform of discussion’ approach, Kelly builds on established theory which places emphases on the gendered gaze. This entails a discussion on women’s painted perspectives of and contacts with Muslim women as well as various Maghrebi cultures and land—all the while remaining mindful of the subject position of the French artist and the problematic issues which can arise when discussing European-made ‘ethnographic’ scenes. Kelly argues that French women’s perspectives of the Maghreb differed from the male gaze and were informed by their artistic training and social positions in Europe. In so doing, French women’s socio-cultural modernity is also examined. Moreover, executed between 1861 and 1956, the works of art presented show influences of Modernism; therefore, this book also pays close attention to progressive Realism and Naturalism in art and the Orientalist shift into Modernist subject matter and form. Through this research into French women Orientalists, Kelly engages with important discussions on the crossing view of the historical female other with the cultural other, artistic hybridity and influence in art as well as the postcolonial response to French activities in colonial Algeria and the protectorates of Tunisia and Morocco. On giving focus to women’s art and the impact of cross-cultural interchanges, this book rethinks Orientalism in French art. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in the history of art, gender studies, history, and Middle Eastern and North African studies.

Women, Art, and Society

Author : Whitney Chadwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500203545
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Women, Art, and Society written by Whitney Chadwick and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This expanded edition is brought up to date in the light of the most recent developments in contemporary art. A new chapter considers globalization in the visual arts and the complex issues it raises, focusing on the many major international exhibitions since 1990 that have become an important arena for women artists from around the world."--BOOK JACKET.

The Female Body in Modern Society

Author : Laure Pepin
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783659773334
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book The Female Body in Modern Society written by Laure Pepin and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our modern and contemporary society gender equality is yet to be achieved and the female body is still oppressed by patriarchal pressures. Feminist performance art introduces a challenging image of the female body, it is distorted, dismembered, digitalized... The female body in feminist art practices intends to find a new body language in order to deconstruct patriarchal codes. This book, portfolio of an artist, follows her journey into her feminist consciousness rising in her performances. It becomes a pamphlet, an expression of a singular voice which calls for women to find their own different voices. She is discovering her own body, her textual language and gradually tries to get rid of patriarchal influence. This book does not only speak to women but also to men as she accuses the diktats which emprison both sexes. She engages us all to rethink our binary gender categories as she smashes them into pieces. Her thinking and her practice are in process and both can interest professional artists, researchers but also art students as an example of a portfolio.

The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art

Author : Ann Millett-Gallant
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031482514
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art written by Ann Millett-Gallant and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Diet Culture and Counterculture

Author : Natalie Jovanovski
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 1349961140
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Diet Culture and Counterculture written by Natalie Jovanovski and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fashioning Politics and Protests

Author : Emily L. Newman
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031162277
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Fashioning Politics and Protests written by Emily L. Newman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through meticulous examinations, this book analyzes how women update their identities and articulate their feelings through clothing and art in protests, politics in the United States in the 20th century. Topics explored include the suffragists and their impact on contemporary art, the significance of the red dress in both The Handmaid’s Tale and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement, the impact of the Miss America protests, the rising popularity of the pantsuit for women, the recent dominance of the pussyhat, and the way that feminist slogans are disseminated on t-shirts. Movements discussed include craftivism, hashtag culture, feminism, the CROWN act, Pantsuit Nation, socially-committed stores, and more. Interdisciplinary and intersectional at its core, addressing numerous areas, including fashion, sociology, visual culture, art history, feminism, and popular culture; Fashioning Politics and Protests uncovers how women continue to use visual means, explored via their clothing, to change the world.