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Female Body Image in Contemporary Art: Dieting, Eating Disorders, Self-Harm, and Fatness

By Newman , Emily L

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
ISBN
9780415346801, 9781315229461, 0415346800, 1315229463
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (8992219 bytes)
Pages
xi, 196 pages: illustrations\209
Time added
2020-11-29 04:20:27

Description

Numerous contemporary artists, particularly female artists, have chosen to examine the idealization of the female body. In this crucial book, Emily L. Newman focuses on a number of key themes including obesity, anorexia, bulimia, dieting, self-harm, and female body image. Many artists utilize their own bodies in their work, and in the act of trying to critique the diet industry, they also often become complicit, as they strive to lose weight themselves. Making art and engaging eating disorder communities (in real life and online) often work to perpetuate the illnesses of themselves or others. A core group of artists has worked to show bodies that are outside the norm, paralleling the rise of fat activism in the 1990s and 2000s. Interwoven throughout this inclusive study are related interdisciplinary concerns including sociology, popular culture, and feminism.

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