Body

Doryphorus (c.440 BCE)

A marble Roman copy of the original
bronze statue by Polykleitos.
Museo Archeologico Naples.
A typical work of 5th century
High Classical Greek sculpture.
Peter Paul Rubens, The Massacre of the Innocents, 1611-1612
Peter Paul Rubens
Raising of the Cross
1610
Saddle, 2000, full rawhide, 27 x 32 x 79”.
Janine Antoni, Eureka, 1993
Bathtub, lard, soap, and Corian
Lick and Lather, 1993, two self-portrait busts: one chocolate
and one soap, 24 x 16 x 13”
Janine Antoni
Gnaw, 1992
600 lbs of chocolate
gnawed by the artist
Janine Antoni, Loving Care, 1993
Performance with Loving Care hair dye, Natural Black
Carolee Schneemann. ‘Up to and Including Her Limits.’
Documentation of performance, 1976.
Carolee Schneemann, Interior Scroll, 1975
Carolee Schneemann. Two images from ‘Eye Body: 36
Transformative Actions,’ 1963
Yoko Ono
Cut Piece
1964
Jenny Saville
Jenny Saville
Lisa Yuskavage
Scissor Sisters
2020
Oil on linen
Ficus, 2008 PieFace, 2008
Oil on linen Oil on linen
Pretty Double-Headed, 2010, Mixed media, ink, collage, spray
paint on Mylar, 34 x 41 3/4 inches.
The bride who married a camel’s head, 2009, Mixed media
collage on Mylar, 42 x 30 inches.
 Gutai
Gutai were a Japanese avant-
garde group formed in 1954
whose radical ideas and
approaches to making art
anticipated later performance
and conceptual art of the
1960s and 1970s

Gutai in Japanese means:

"Gu" = tools, "Tai" = body
meaning, that they used their
bodies as tools for doing art.
Atsuko Tanaka created an Electric Dress "a costume made of
several dozen incandescent bulbs and colored neon tubes"
that she used as part of her performance at the Second Gutai Art
Exhibition, in 1956. It was quite dangerous as she could have
been electrocuted.
Tetsumi Kudo
Tetsumi Kudo
Tetsumi Kudo
Body Horror in Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUscjOnW97U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n9ESFJTnHs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwahG1s4dqI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO8Uszop5GU
Chris Burden
Shoot,1971
“Trans-fixed” (1974) Bed piece, 1972
Robert Longo
Robert Longo
Robert Longo American psycho
Robert Gober, Untitled, 1990
Robert Gober
Untitled, 1991
Short Haired Cheese 1992–1993
Beeswax, human hair
Franz West
Adaptives
Franz West, Adaptives
Wim Delvoye
Poop Machine
2000