An Intimate Distance: Women, Artists and the Body

by Rosemary Betterton and Rosem Betterton

Book Overview

An Intimate Distance considers a wide range of visual images of women in the context of current debates which centre around the body, including reproductive science, questions of ageing and death and the concept of 'body horror' in relation to food, consumption and sex. A feminist reclamation of these images suggests how the permeable boundaries between the female body and technology, nature and culture are being crossed in the work of women artists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415110858
• ISBN13: 9780415110853
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"