title: The Body in Contemporary Art (World of Art)
author:  Sally O'Reilly 
description: Makes the human body an effective lens through which to view the myriad strands of postmodern art since it settled into pluralism in the 1900s. A valuable readable reference.<br /> - <strong><em>The Magazine (Santa Fe's Monthly)</em></strong>
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  [The Body Adorned…](index_split_004.html#filepos5243)  
  [In Fact and Fiction](index_split_004.html#filepos5243)
  
  
  
  
  
    * ELIZABETH McCRACKEN tells a tale of romance, loss, and a walking, breathing love letter… 
    * On a literary canvas WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN paints a portrait of a skinhead girl who wears her rage on her thigh… 
    * KAROL GRIFFITH recalls how she animates her art, from fruit to flesh… 
    * From a historical palette, MADAME CHINCHILLA tracks the sinuous, true trail of the illustrated woman… 
    * RICK MOODY describes how he paid homage to his literary achievement in a place where no prize committee can find it… 
    * In a story of deliverance, ALEJANDRO MURGIA follows a motorist who picks up a temptress with the mark of danger on the highway to hell… 
    * DEENA METZGER reflects on her own liberation through illumination of an intimate bodily scar… 
  
  
  Dorothy Parker’s Elbow
  
  
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  [Copyright](index_split_004.html#filepos5340)
  
  
  Copyright © 2002 b