THE BODY IN THE CONTEMPORARY ART

The Body in Contemporary Art presents an international survey of art made since the early 1990s that has the body as its focus. It e xamines such areas as nature and technology, the grotesque, identity politics and the place of the individual in society.Featuring t he work of both renowned and up-and-coming figures, including Francis Alÿs, Marlene Dumas, Matthew Barney, Oleg Kulik, Rineke Dijkst ra and Ernesto Neto, this book shows how the body continues to be pivotal to our understanding and expression of our place in the un iverse.