The Artist’s Body

The editor Warr pairs a selection of thematically arranged works of body art with similarly arranged critical texts defining the movement and theoretical texts elaborating concepts of the body. Jones’ survey text provides the social and historical context within which body art has developed. The sections, arranged chronologically, begin with the primitive, gestural extensions of the body through painting and end with the more sophisticated technological extensions of the 1990s. Index. Biographical notes. Bibl. 3 p. Circa 440 bibl. ref.