Body image

Author: Lebo (France) translated by Tang Huangzhen
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Publish Date: 1999-06-01
Features: We encounter the body either through everyday perception or through imaginative fabrication, and the latter is the theme explored in this book. The author argues that the body image is a physical battle between the painter and the canvas, making painting a dance, ritual, and combat of the body, as it stems from the painter's self-driven body and is a process where the body seeks the body. Similarly, viewing art is also a process where the body seeks the body. Through a personalized writing style, the author recreates a strange garden of body imagery, where these bizarre images leave people bewildered, as if they have seen fragments or scenes somewhere before, yet remain unaware of their deeper meaning. This book is a thought-provoking and beautifully written exploration of body aesthetics.