This striking book reproduces recent artworks by fourteen North American postmodern artists who explore non-traditional notions of beauty in the human body.
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This striking book reproduces recent artworks by fourteen North American postmodern artists who explore non-traditional notions of beauty in the human body.
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"A Broken Beauty" draws from the recent output of fourteen North American artists who work in figurative and narrative modes. As Postmodern artists, crossing the threshold of the 21st century, each engages the human condition and explores non-traditional notions of beauty in the human body. This occurs when they introduce brokenness (physical, mental, and spiritual) into their renderings of human embodiment. As a result, they turn the long tradition of Western idealization of beauty on its head and inside out. For the viewer, this means an invitation to contemplate the body's capacity for beauty despite brokenness, in the midst of brokenness, and, ironically, because of brokenness. Viewers of the images in "A Broken Beauty" are challenged to be present to the struggle and grace emerging from deeply personal stories, historical and sacred narratives, and the terrors of history that shaped yesterday and will give us tomorrow.
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PRODUCT DETAIL
- Catalogue Code 228416
- Product Code 0802828183
- EANÂ 9780802828187
- Pages 152
- Department General Books
- Category Gift Book
- Sub-Category General
- Publisher Eerdmans
- Publication Date Mar 2005
- Dimensions 319 x 235 x 18mm
- Weight 1.212kg
Theodore Prescott (Ed)
Theodore Prescott is professor of visual arts and theatre at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania.
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