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An Art of Bodies

From the mid-‘60s on, the reign of abstraction (geometric, lyric and ‘informal’ [or tachiste]) in avant-garde visual arts was interrupted by a series of bodies that set themselves opposite, and in place of, the work of art. The artist’s body became the medium and tool on which to represent and intervene in reality. Not only was the role of the artist’s individual body reconfigured, but also that of the social body, through emphasis on collective creation; and the political body too in the context of the new mass societies and the violent dictatorial processes of the ‘60s and …