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The Body

The body can be ideal, wounded, sexual, political, aging, disciplined or simply present. These artists make it impossible to treat the figure as neutral.

01Ana MendietaThe body leaves a trace.02Egon SchieleThe body is a raw instrument of self-knowledge.03Francis BaconThe human figure under pressure.04Jenny SavillePaint makes flesh exceed every idealizing frame.05Kiki SmithThe vulnerable body remains continuous with the natural world.06Louise BourgeoisMemory gets a body.07Marina AbramovicThe body is the material.08Wangechi MutuThe body rebuilt from the images that consume it.