商品簡介
The specially commissioned essays in Other Worlds explore thematic connections in their work - the female body, myth and fantasy, the sacred and profane, the decorative - in the context of post-Second World War American art and social movements, and feminist and cultural theories.
Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith are prominent artists from different generations who have turned vulnerability into strength. They make art that represents the body, but in forms that avoid objectification or narcissism and that speak to the universal without idealization or reduction. Working with and against the signs of meaning that constitute art's language, they trace the disposition and expressivity of the body across imaginative visual worlds of emancipation and desire.
作者簡介
Jon Bird is Professor of Art and Critical Theory at Middlesex University and the author of Leon Golub: Echoes of the Real (Reaktion Books, 2001).
