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An Intimate Distance: Women, Artists and the Body
An Intimate Distance Women Artists and the Body Author:Rosemary Betterton In a series of original readings of the work of artists from Kathe Kollwitz and Georgia O'Keeffe to Helen Cahdwick and Laura Godfrey Issacs, Rosemary Betterton explores how women artists have addressed the changing relationship between women, the body and its representation in art. Reflecting the shift within feminist art over the last decade, ... more » An Intimate Distance sets the reinscription of the body within women's art practice in the context of current debates on the body, including reproductive science, maternal subjectivity and the concept of "body horror" in relation to food, aging and sex. Drawing on recent theories of embodiment developed within feminist philosphy and psychoanalytic theory, the essays reveal how permeable boundaries between nature and culture, the female body and technology are crossed in the work of women artists.« less