Numerous contemporary artists, particularly female artists, have chosen to examine the idealization of the female body. In this crucial book, Emily L. Newman fo
Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives. Venus, maiden, wife, mother, monster�
The Body in Women's Art Now is a three part series of touring art exhibitions, curated by Philippa Found, Gallery Director of ROLLO Contemporary Art, examining
In his theory of the 'mirror stage', the psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan argued that the female body is defined by its lack of male attributes. Wit
"Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co. ... on the occasion of the exhibition Marilyn Minter: pretty/dirty. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, April 17-August 2, 2