Sally O'Reilly

The Body in Contemporary Art

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Featuring work across a range of media, from painting and sculpture to installation, video art and performance, this book examines the different roles played by the body in art, from being the subject of portraiture to becoming an active presence in live and participatory events.

Produktdetails

• World of Art
• Verlag: Thames & Hudson / Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 153mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780500204009
• ISBN-10: 0500204004
• Artikelnr.: 26154375

Autorenporträt

Sally O'Reilly is a writer who contributes regularly to various art magazines including Art Monthly, Frieze, Art Review and Time Out. She has written numerous catalogue essays for international museums and galleries. She has curated and produced a number of performance events, both independently and as one of the founders of Brown Mountain College of the Performing Arts.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Representation and Presence - 2. The Body in Time and Space - 3. Difference and Solidarity - 4. Nature, Myth, Technology - 5. Grotesque: Monsters, deviation, abjection, disappearance, death - 6. Over to You/Into the World 4000 - 7. Revised and Remade

Rezensionen

'O'Reilly's plain language and the simple structure of the book make it authoritative' - The Art Newspaper