Body art

Classified as:
  • Art Movement
  • Book Subject
  • Book Series

Key facts:
  • Art Movement Era: 20th century post-1945
  • Art Movement Era Covered: 1960 - 2006 (average: 1976)
  • Artworks: 55
  • Book: Hair decoration
  • Author: Paul Dowswell
  • Bnb Id: GBA3U3003
  • Publication Date: 2004
  • Artists: 15
  • Books on this subject: 21
  • Editions on this subject: 21
  • Authors on this subject: 20
  • Books in this series: 8
  • Authors in this series: 3

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Timeline

There are 55 artworks within the Body art movement between 1960 and 2006 in our database:

Museums

There are 1 museums with this movement in their collection:

Museum Artworks
Tate Museums 55

Artists

There are 15 artists involved in that movement in our database:

Artist Artworks
Rebecca Horn 20
Helen Chadwick 11
Bruce Nauman 4
Paul McCarthy 3
Stuart Brisley 3
Arnulf Rainer 2
Bruce McLean 2
Piero Manzoni 2
Rudolf Schwarzkogler 2
Ana Mendieta 1
Charles Ray 1
Dennis Oppenheim 1
Judy Clark 1
Klaus Rinke 1
Mona Hatoum 1

Gender

Gender distribution in represented artists:

Gender Artists Distribution
female 5 33.3%
male 10 66.7%

Top Authors

The main authors on Body art by number of books and editions:

Author Books & Editions
Pauline Clarke 2
Amelia Jones 1
Bugsy (Tattoo artist) 1
Charles Gatewood 1
Douglas Kent Hall 1
Fakir Musafar 1
Hilary Hammond 1
Jane Blocker 1
Karl Gröning 1
Kym Menzies 1

Books

There are the 21 books on the Body art subject with a total 21 editions:

dataset Extract

Here are the most edited ones:

Title Author Editions
A practical guide to body art Hilary Hammond 1
Prison tattoos Douglas Kent Hall 1
Veruschka : trans-figurations Veruschka 1
The world atlas of tattoo Anna Felicity Friedman 1
The scar of visibility : medical performances and contemporary art Petra Kuppers 1
The eye of the needle Pauline Clarke 1
The chameleon body : photographs of contemporary fetishism Nicholas Sinclair 1
The best of our tattoos : special edition featuring volumes 1 to 5 Bugsy (Tattoo artist) 1
Spirit + flesh Fakir Musafar 1
Skin deep presents the best sci-fi tattoos. Volume 1 Sion Smith 1
It's not personal : post 60s body art and performance Susan Best 1
Badlands Charles Gatewood 1
Inked : tattoos and body art around the world Margo DeMello 1
Hot bodies, cool styles : new techniques in self-adornment Ted Polhemus 1
Encounters : performance, photography, collaboration Manuel Vason 1
Decorated skin : a world survey of body art Karl Gröning 1
Body art/performing the subject Amelia Jones 1
Body art Nicholas Thomas 1
Body art Kym Menzies 1
Beyond the eye of the needle Pauline Clarke 1
What the body cost : desire, history, and performance Jane Blocker 1

Authors

The 3 authors in this series in our database:

Author Books
Anna Claybourne 4
Paul Dowswell 2
Paul Mason 2

Books

The 8 books in this series in our database:

dataset Extract

Here are 8 of them:

Title Year
Hair decoration 2004
Piercing 2004
Body painting 2004
Tattooing 2004
Tattooing 2005
Body painting 2005
Body piercing 2005
Hair decoration 2005

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