Body in Contemporary Art, Paperback

The human desire to adorn the body is universal and timeless. While specific forms of body decoration and the motivations for them vary by region, ...

In his writing on the 'mirror stage', the psychoanalytic theorist Jacques Lacan describes the female body as lacking: a mere symptom of man, an obj...

Description-A new take on perception and preconceptions about the unclothed body and how, through art, the naked becomes the nude Unframing the Nud...

This is an illustrated study of the representation of the body and clothing in Western art, from Greek sculpture and vase painting, through medieva...

Reducere. How contemporary artists draw the human figure in an affordable, up-to-date and well-illustrated survey, covering an eclectic range of drawing styl...

Reducere. DescriptionThe art of the Japanese tattoo has fascinated people across the world for decades, but in Japan they are taboo since traditional full bo...

Essays and interviews explore the work of Carrie Mae Weems and its place in the history of photography, African American art, and contemporary art....

Reducere. In art making, materials and media are the intermediaries between private ideas, thoughts and feelings, and their external manifestation in a tangi...

Reducere. Over the last twenty years, reenactment has been appropriated by both contemporary artistic production and art-theoretical discourse, becoming a di...

Reducere. You have a history, and a body. You are a history, and a body. Your body has (is) a history, too. As a girl, Julie Marie Wade was uninterested in m...

Reducere. A bold, engaged new anthology spotlighting the work of contemporary Dutch poets. What shape does Dutch art take in the American imagination? Auster...

Reducere. "Sitting" is a handbook for deepening your experience of the ancient posture of sitting meditation. Drawing on research in somatic education and ex...

For more than two decades, the artist Renee Green has created an impressive body of work in which language is an essential element. Green is also a...

Reducere. DescriptionMary Peelen's spare poems pulse with what they contain and describe--in both the imagistic and the mathematical sense of the word--harne...

In this ground-breaking book, author Nigel Sutton presents the wisdom, skill and experience of contemporary masters of Cheng Man Ching's Taijiquan ...

This richly illustrated volume provides an overview of the fascinating work of the contemporary Dutch artist Juul Kraijer. In her works, Kraijer ex...

"There's always a good murder around if ye know where to look for it, " declares Professor John Stubbs. "It may be masqueradin' as accidental death...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this powerful collection, Chelsea Rathburn seeks to voice matters once deemed unspeakable, from collisions between children and preda...

DescriptionChosen to represent the United States at the 46th Venice Biennale, Bill Viola, a New York artist living on the West Coast, is recognized...

DescriptionMuch has changed since Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her groundbreaking Sexual Personae, but the laser-sharp insights o...

How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particular...

Reducere. The eerily prescient work of a near-forgotten Japanese artist, whose 1960s and '70s sculptures anticipate contemporary ecological anxietiesContempl...

Reducere. A book that belongs in every seeker's home, Spiritual Literacy answers the universal question, "How can I live a spiritual life every day?" Frederi...

The man known as Blutch is one of the giants of contemporary comics, and Peplum may be his masterpiece: a grand, strange dream of ancient Rome. At ...

Reducere. Henri Cole's last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent. In his new book, Touch, written with an almost invisible but ever-present ...

Reducere. This book is about the forgotten art and science of healing: retrieved and reaped in easy steps. Equally, it is an attempt at interpreting the anci...

Mutual Aid, Peter Kropotkin's most famous work, is both an Anarchist Classic and an important Biological treatise. It was written as a direct rebut...

The first major collection of poetry written in English by the flabbergasting and flamboyant Baroness Elsa, "the first American Dada."As a neurasth...

DescriptionConoley's selected poems assemble a shockingly varied body of work, comprising narrative, lyric, and fragmented forms. Her coruscating v...

Ode to Our Wild Feminine Souls This provocative book invites you to create your own spiritual path based on often-suppressed ancient principles and...

Reducere. DescriptionWar Machine: How to Transform Yourself into a Vicious and Deadly Street Fighter is a book that will change you for the rest of your life...

Reducere. Since ancient times Tai Chi Chuan has been practiced as a holistic mind/body fitness system, bringing immense benefits for practitioners in health,...

One of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers presents the results of his lifetime study of man's cultural achievements An Essay on Man is a...