Product Description: Pictured in two centuries of images, the hypermuscular and physically strong woman is studied here for the first time as a major player in popular culture and contemporary art. Using the bodybuilder as prototype, a rich variety of authors engage with her particular physicality, and how it resonates with social issues such as female pleasure and gender stereotypes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Includes reproductions of Ringgold's story quilts--some of them accompanied by the text

Product Description: This catalogue accompanies a vast survey of the work of Mona Hatoum (born 1952) at Kunst-haus St.Gallen in Switzerland. The pieces range from the artist's body-centered early performances of the 1980s, through large sculptures of threatening household objects, to more recent, politically charged installations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)