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dc.identifier	ECF_article_2404
dc.title	The Female Body in the Artistic Research of the Late Twentieth Century. The Case of Vanessa Beecroft
dc.contributor.author	Fantuzzi Arianna
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/venezia-arti/2019/1/il-corpo-femminile-nelle-ricerche-artistiche-di-fi/
dc.description.abstract	Disguised, adorned, placed in space and obsessively controlled, the body exhibited in Vanessa Beecroft’s performances, drawings and photographs, highlights several key themes of contemporary debate, such as identity transformation, desire, gaze and obsession for perfection, shown from the artist’s perspective and impressed on her models’ bodies. The present essay aims to deepen these topics through the works of Vanessa Beecroft, with an emphasis on those realised in the early nineties – among which the drawings of deformed bodies and the compulsive annotations of the Libro del Cibo – and relating them to the contemporary research of Italian female artists, which reveal new declinations of art making, starting from the same subject: the female body and its symbolism.
dc.relation.ispartof	Venezia Arti
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 28 \| December 2019
dc.issued	2019-12-11
dc.dateAccepted	2019-08-16
dc.dateSubmitted	2019-07-18
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2385-2720
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/VA/2385-2720/2019/01/010
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Body
dc.subject	Body
dc.subject	Female
dc.subject	Female
dc.subject	Performance
dc.subject	Performance
dc.subject	Symbolism
dc.subject	Symbolism
dc.subject	Vanessa Beecroft
dc.subject	Vanessa Beecroft

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The Female Body in the Artistic Research of the Late Twentieth Century

The Case of Vanessa Beecroft

Arianna Fantuzzi Università IULM, Milano, Italia

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abstract

Disguised, adorned, placed in space and obsessively controlled, the body exhibited in Vanessa Beecroft’s performances, drawings and photographs, highlights several key themes of contemporary debate, such as identity transformation, desire, gaze and obsession for perfection, shown from the artist’s perspective and impressed on her models’ bodies. The present essay aims to deepen these topics through the works of Vanessa Beecroft, with an emphasis on those realised in the early nineties – among which the drawings of deformed bodies and the compulsive annotations of the Libro del Cibo – and relating them to the contemporary research of Italian female artists, which reveal new declinations of art making, starting from the same subject: the female body and its symbolism.

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Dec. 11, 2019

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Aug. 16, 2019

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July 18, 2019

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Keywords: Performance • Body • Symbolism • Vanessa Beecroft • Female

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