The Body Artist

The Body Artist
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 129
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780743212229
ISBN-13 : 0743212223
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis The Body Artist by : Don DeLillo

A stunning novel by the bestselling National Book Award–winning author of White Noise and Underworld. Since the publication of his first novel Americana, Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls who haunt the fringes of our culture and for its larger-than-life, real-life figures. His language is defiantly, radiantly American. In The Body Artist his spare, seductive twelfth novel, he inhabits the muted world of Lauren Hartke, an artist whose work defies the limits of the body. Lauren is living on a lonely coast, in a rambling rented house, where she encounters a strange, ageless man, a man with uncanny knowledge of her own life. Together they begin a journey into the wilderness of time, love and human perception. The Body Artist is a haunting, beautiful and profoundly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time.

The Body Artist

The Body Artist
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Publisher : Picador
Total Pages : 94
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ISBN-10 : 9781743282007
ISBN-13 : 1743282001
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis The Body Artist by : Don DeLillo

The Body Artist begins with normality: breakfast between a married couple, Lauren and Rey, in their ramshackle rented house on the New England coast. Recording their delicate, intimate, half-complete thoughts and words, DeLillo proves himself a stunningly unsentimental observer of our idiosyncratic relationships. But after breakfast, Rey makes a decision that leaves Lauren utterly alone, or seems to. As Lauren, the body artist of the title, becomes strangely detached from herself and the temporal world, the novel becomes an exploration of a highly abnormal grieving process; a fascinating expose of 'who we are when we are not rehearsing who we are'; and a rarefied study of trauma and creativity, absence and presence, isolation and communion.

Body Art/performing the Subject

Body Art/performing the Subject
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 372
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0816627738
ISBN-13 : 9780816627738
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Body Art/performing the Subject by : Amelia Jones

"With great originality and scholarship, Amelia Jones maps out an extraordinary history of body art over the last three decades and embeds it in the theoretical terrain of postmoderism. The result is a wonderful and permissive space in which the viewer...can wander"...-Moira Roth, Trefethen professor of art history, Mills College.

Customizing the Body

Customizing the Body
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Publisher : Temple University Press
Total Pages : 272
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781592138890
ISBN-13 : 1592138896
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Customizing the Body by : Clinton Sanders

Tattoos as art, work, decoration and defiance.

Body of Art

Body of Art
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Publisher : Phaidon Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 071486966X
ISBN-13 : 9780714869667
Rating : 4/5 (6X Downloads)

Synopsis Body of Art by : Phaidon Editors

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, representative to abstract and conceptual. Over 400 artists are featured in chapters that explore identity, beauty, religion, absent body, sex and gender, power, body's limits, abject body and bodies & space. Works range from 11,000 BC hand stencils in Argentine caves to videos and performances by contemporary artists such as Marina Abramovic, Joan Jonas and Bruce Nauman? Its fresh, accessible and dynamic voice brings to life the thrilling diversity of both classical and contemporary art through the prism of the body. More than simply a book of representations, this is an original and thought provoking look at the human body across time, cultures and media.

The Artist's Body

The Artist's Body
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Publisher : Phaidon Press
Total Pages : 208
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0714863939
ISBN-13 : 9780714863931
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis The Artist's Body by : Tracey Warr

A survey of the use of the artist's body in 20th-century art.

The Art of the Body

The Art of the Body
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0349700761
ISBN-13 : 9780349700762
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Art of the Body by : Alex Allison

The Art of Body Acceptance

The Art of Body Acceptance
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Publisher : Page Street Publishing
Total Pages : 224
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781645672722
ISBN-13 : 1645672727
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis The Art of Body Acceptance by : Ashlee Bennett

Make Bad Art. Make Messy Art. Make Art that Heals You, Grounds You and Inspires You to Have More Compassion for Your Body and Yourself. You are inherently creative. Yes, you. Even if you’ve never picked up a paintbrush before, registered art therapist Ashlee Bennett will teach you how to reclaim your creativity and make amends with your body using art. In our image-obsessed society, it’s easy to be bogged down by the negative messaging that you’re not enough, that your creativity and self-expression aren’t “right” and that your body isn’t worthy of love and respect. But Ashlee sees the falsehood in those messages and is here to guide you to a place of greater compassion, acceptance and connection with your body and your inner self. Therapeutic art exercises give you unconditional permission to express yourself. Creating a sensations map helps you connect your body and mind, forming sculptures allows you to represent your inner qualities using clay and making a collage gives you the opportunity to express the way you wish media reflected bodies and appearance. The goal isn’t to create art worthy of a museum or even your refrigerator door—the goal is to use art as a way to reconnect with your body, reject harmful beauty standards enforced by our society and learn that you are worthy of taking up space, just the way you are.

Interactive Art and Embodiment

Interactive Art and Embodiment
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Publisher : Gylphi Limited
Total Pages : 306
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781780240091
ISBN-13 : 1780240090
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Interactive Art and Embodiment by : Nathaniel Stern

Nathaniel Stern's 'Interactive Art and Embodiment' defies the world of interactive art and new media from the perspective of the body and identity. It presents the ongoing and emergent processes of embodiment in art and includes immersive descriptions of interactive artworks.

The Body of the Artisan

The Body of the Artisan
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 416
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0226763994
ISBN-13 : 9780226763996
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis The Body of the Artisan by : Pamela H. Smith

Since the time of Aristotle, the making of knowledge and the making of objects have generally been considered separate enterprises. Yet during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the two became linked through a "new" philosophy known as science. In The Body of the Artisan, Pamela H. Smith demonstrates how much early modern science owed to an unlikely source-artists and artisans. From goldsmiths to locksmiths and from carpenters to painters, artists and artisans were much sought after by the new scientists for their intimate, hands-on knowledge of natural materials and the ability to manipulate them. Drawing on a fascinating array of new evidence from northern Europe including artisans' objects and their writings, Smith shows how artisans saw all knowledge as rooted in matter and nature. With nearly two hundred images, The Body of the Artisan provides astonishingly vivid examples of this Renaissance synergy among art, craft, and science, and recovers a forgotten episode of the Scientific Revolution-an episode that forever altered the way we see the natural world.