The artist's body
By: edited by Tracey Warr ; survey by Amelia Jones
Edition: Abridged, revised and updated.
Publisher: Phaidon
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780714863931
Subjects: Performance art; Body art; Human beings in art; Artists and models in art
Description: Tracing artists' increasing use of their bodies as subject and actual material of their artworks, this title charts the rise of new forms of expression such as body art, happenings, performance and live art.
Notes: "First published 2000"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-201) and index.
Table of contents: title: Painting bodies; title: Gesturing bodies; title: Ritualistic and transgressive bodies; title: Body boundaries; title: Performing identity; title: Absent bodies; title: Extended and prosthetic bodies.