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| Intimate Distance: Women, Artists and the Body | | | Author: | Rosemary Betterton | | ISBN: | 041511084X | | Format: | Handover | | Publish Date: | June, 2005 | | |  |  |  | | | | | | | Book Review | | | |
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"Readers will certainly come away with a new understanding of our culture and a new idea of what women have done and must do in order to influence change."
Book Description
In a series of original readings of the work of artists from Kathe Kollwitz and Georgia O'Keeffe to Helen Cahdwick and Laura Godfrey Issacs, Rosemary Betterton explores how women artists have addressed the changing relationship between women, the body and its representation in art. Reflecting the shift within feminist art over the last decade, An Intimate Distance sets the reinscription of the body within women's art practice in the context of current debates on the body, including reproductive science, maternal subjectivity and the concept of "body horror" in relation to food, aging and sex. Drawing on recent theories of embodiment developed within feminist philosphy and psychoanalytic theory, the essays reveal how permeable boundaries between nature and culture, the female body and technology are crossed in the work of women artists.
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 inteh Visual Arts and Media and has written widely in the areas of feminist art history and theory.
Intimate Distance: Women, Artists and the Body FROM THE PUBLISHER How have women artists taken possession of the female body? What is the relationship between looking and embodiment in art made by women? In a series of original readings of the work of artists from Kathe Kollwitz and Georgia O'Keeffe to Helen Chadwick and Laura Godfrey-Isaacs, Rosemary Betterton explores how women artists have addressed the changing relationship between women, the body and its representation in art. In detailed critical essays that range from the analysis of maternal imagery in the work of German artists at the turn of the century to the unrepresented body in contemporary abstract painting, Betterton argues that women's art practices offer new ways of engaging with our fascinations with and fears about the female body. Reflecting the shift within feminist art over the last decade, An Intimate Distance sets the reinscription of the body within women's art practice in the context of current debates on the body, including reproductive science, maternal subjectivity and the concept of 'body horror' in relation to food, ageing and sex. Drawing on recent theories of embodiment developed within feminist philosophy and psychoanalytic theory, the essays reveal how the permeable boundaries between nature and culture, the female body and technology are being crossed in the work of women artists.
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