The Body in Contemporary Art

A thorough international survey of the body's role in contemporary art, fully revised and updated.
The Body in Contemporary Art presents an international survey of art made since 2000 that takes th ...

A thorough international survey of the body's role in contemporary art, fully revised and updated.
The Body in Contemporary Art presents an international survey of art made since 2000 that takes the body as its focus. Examining such areas as nature and technology, identity politics and the grotesque, writer and critic Sally O'Reilly traces the body's movement from a subject to a live medium of art, and highlights how socio-political and cultural developments, from contemporary scientific breakthroughs to the Russian-Ukranian war, have all had a profound influence on representations of the h