An Intimate Distance: Women, Artists and the Body

by Rosemary Betterton

Overview

An Intimate Distance considers a wide range of visual images of women in the context of current debates which centre around the body, including reproductive science, questions of ageing and death and the concept of 'body horror' in relation to food, consumption and sex. A feminist reclamation of these images suggests how the permeable boundaries between the female body and technology, nature and culture are being crossed in the work of women artists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136155697
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/18/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Rosemary Betterton teaches art history and critical studies at Sheffield Hallam University. She is the author of Looking On: Images of Femininity in the Visual Arts and Media, and has written widely in the areas of feminist art history and theory.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 An Intimate Distance; Chapter 2 Mother Figures; Chapter 3 ‘A Perfect Woman’; Chapter 4 Bodies in the Work; Chapter 5 Life and A.R.T; Chapter 6 Body Horror?; Chapter 7 Identities, Memories, Desires;