An Intimate Distance: Women, Artists and the Body

by Rosemary Betterton

An Intimate Distance considers a wide range of visual images of women in the context of current debates which centre around the body, including reproductive science, questions of ageing and death and the concept of 'body horror' in relation to food, consumption and sex. A feminist reclamation of these images suggests how the permeable boundaries between the female body and technology, nature and culture are being crossed in the work of women artists.

Genres: Art, Feminism, Nonfiction

254 pages, Paperback

First published October 3, 1996

Reviews

[Christina Cathcart · Rating 5 out of 5]

The ability of feminist artists to create visualizations of their feelings on maternity, sexuality, societal pressures and more intrigues me both as an artist and as someone once unable to express their deep discomfort with the gendered perceptions placed on women. The force of will, the pain, the sheer outrage required to create political statements in art must be powerful to be understood, and this book explores the meaning behind such work.

[Braden Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent synthesis of multiple methods and theories, entirely situated within a pre-Matrixial feminist discourse that no doubt set a platform for the relational spectatorial research that is firing off in academia today.