Social Creatures

Social Creatures

Francis Alys • Hatje Cantz

ISBN-10: 3775714324 · ISBN-13: 978‑3775714327 · 2004

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Social Creatures-How Body Becomes Art presents obsessive kissers and Iranian young-girls' dreams; it raises questions about altered ideas of human intimacy, about patterns of order in social structures, and about the meaning of the human being as a commodity. The human image, the view of self that shapes one's frame of action, appears to be in a constant state of flux. The destabilization of cultural, ethnic, and socio-political identities against the background of expanding global orientation is as much a part of this process as the dwindling significance of human labor. Social Creatures-How Body Becomes Art presents a collection of thirteen current artistic positions, each of which pursues a different approach to the representation of the human body in photography and video art.

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