The body aesthetic : from fine art to body modification / edited by Tobin Siebers.

The last thirty years of cultural theory have seen a vigorous analytic focus on the human body both as the subject of cultural representations and as an escape from their repressive influence. Rare is the account that focuses on the most obvious fact about the body: it is the stuff out of which huma...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors:	Siebers, Tobin
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2000.
Series:	Ratio.
Subjects:	Human body > Social aspects. Human body > Symbolic aspects. Body image. Body marking. Body art. Anthropology. Human Body. Art. Body Image. Esthetics.