Venezia Arti Rivista del Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali dell’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

Rivista | Venezia Arti
Fascicolo monografico | 28 | 2019
Articolo | Il corpo femminile nelle ricerche artistiche di fine Novecento

Il corpo femminile nelle ricerche artistiche di fine Novecento

Il caso di Vanessa Beecroft

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.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 18 Luglio 2019 | Accettato: 16 Agosto 2019 | Pubblicato 11 Dicembre 2019 | Lingua: it

Keywords BodyPerformanceFemaleVanessa BeecroftSymbolism


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