1st Edition

An Intimate Distance Women, Artists and the Body

By Rosemary Betterton Copyright 1996
    254 Pages
    by Routledge

    254 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Introduction 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 An Intimate Distance; Chapter 2 Mother Figures; Chapter 3 ‘A Perfect Woman’; Chapter 4 Bodies in the Work; Chapter 5 Life and A.R.T; Chapter 6 Body Horror?; Chapter 7 Identities, Memories, Desires;

    Biography

    Rosemary Betterton teaches art history and critical studies at Sheffield Hallam University. She is the author of Looking On: Images of Femininity in the Visual Arts and Media, and has written widely in the areas of feminist art history and theory.