{"product_id":"the-artists-body-themes-and-movements-9780714835020","title":"The Artist's Body (Themes and Movements)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeginning with such key artists as Marcel Duchamp and Jackson Pollock  this book examines a selection of the most significant players who have used their bodies to create their art  among them  in the 1960s Carolee Scheemann  Rudolf Schwarzkogler  Yoko Ono; in the 1970s  Chris Burden  Ana Mendieta  Vito Acconci  Marina Abramovic; up to the turn of the millennium  Matthew Barney  Marc Quinn  Tracey Emin and Mona Hatoum.  Survey Amelia Jones among the world experts in the field  discusses performance and body art against the background of social history. She examines the breakdown of barriers between art and life  visual and sensual experience  how artists have expanded and renewed the age-old tradition of self-portraiture  moving art out of the gallery into unexpected spaces and media.  Works Each image is accompanied by an extended caption. The book is organized thematically:  Painting Bodies  concerns work that shows the trace  stain or imprint of the artists body in response to the paint-on-canvas tradition. Gesturing Bodies  examines artists who transform the body  its acts  its gesture  into art; gesture  behaviour and situations are used in place of art objects. Ritualistic and Transgressive Bodies  looks at work which uses the body to enact challenges to the social expecations of the body  often in rituals that perform a cathartic function. Mutilation and sacrifice are used to rupture personal and social homogeneity. Body Boundaries  examines boundaries between the individual body and the social environment and between the inside and outside of the body itself. Performing Identity  looks at issues of representation and identity. Absent Bodies  explores absence and the mortality of the body through photography  casting  imprints or remnants of the body. In Extended and Prosthetic Bodies  the body is extended through prosthetics or technology  to explore cyberspace and alternative states of consciousness.  Documents Parallel to the illustrated works of art  this section combines texts by critics who shaped the movement  from Lucy R. Lippard to Thomas McEvilley. Alongside these are writings by philosophers and thinkers such as George Bataille and Gilles Deleuze who have contributed on a theoretical level to the discussion around the body  a prevalent theme in twentieth-century cultural theory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45529559466037,"sku":"ByrdShop_0714835021","price":349.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780714835020.jpg?v=1780937833","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-artists-body-themes-and-movements-9780714835020","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}