Female Body Image in Contemporary Art

Dieting, Eating Disorders, Self-Harm, and Fatness

Emily L. Newman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

196 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-34680-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Emily L. Newman is Associate Professor of Art History at Texas A&M University-Commerce.

Beginnings; Diets; Eating Disorders; Self-Harm; Fatness; Beginnings, Again; Selected Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2018
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Research in Gender and Art
Zusatzinfo	24 Halftones, black and white; 24 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	682 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-415-34680-0 / 0415346800
ISBN-13	978-0-415-34680-1 / 9780415346801
Zustand	Neuware