Phaidon Press Ltd

Phaidon Press Ltd - Body of art | diane fortenberry, rebecca morrill, josephine new

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• The first book to celebrate the beautiful and provocative ways artists have represented
• Scrutinized and utilized the body over centuries
• Body of Art is the first book to explore the various ways the human body has been both an inspiration and a medium for artists over hundreds of thousands of years
• Unprecedented in its scope
• It examines the many different manifestations of the body in art
• From Anthony Gormley and Maya Lin sculptures to eight-armed Hindu gods and ancient Greek reliefs
• From feminist graphics and Warhol's empty electric chair to the blue-tinted complexion of Singer Sargent's Madame X
• It is the most expansive examination of the human body in art
• Spanning western and non-western
• Ancient to contemporary