Female Body Image in Contemporary Art

Dieting, Eating Disorders, Self-Harm, and Fatness

Emily L. Newman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

196 Seiten

2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-51611-6 (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	03.04.2020
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	362 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-367-51611-X / 036751611X
ISBN-13	978-0-367-51611-6 / 9780367516116
Zustand	Neuware