{"product_id":"vital-signs","title":"Vital Signs","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVital Signs\u003c\/i\u003e looks closely at how abstraction is often intimately tied with expansive, fluid ideas of the bodily.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVital Signs\u003c\/i\u003e looks closely at how abstraction is often intimately tied with expansive, fluid ideas of the bodily. Bringing together seemingly unalike categories-masculine\/feminine, figurative\/abstract, self\/other, exotic\/banal-into newly fused configurations, the publication shows how artists have often conceived of these categories as inextricably intertwined. With a focus on artists working in the 1960s and 70s who, with a few exceptions, identified as women, the catalogue is divided into three thematic sections.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Mirror' explores the ways artists have honed in on the forms of the face and head as a distorted mirror; 'Matter' looks at how artists draw on the metaphorical resonances of the body in ways that suggest mutable morphologies, especially in relation to socially constructed definitions of gender, race, and sexuality; and 'Metamorphosis' examines how artists have used abstraction as a means to transform the human body into different modes of being: new identities, other animals, and spiritual or cosmological entities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn introductory essay Lanka Tattersall maps the historical precedents from a feminist and queer art historical perspective, while a prologue by poet and artist Precious Okoyomon and a focused meditation by Lambda Literary Award finalist Cyrus Grace Dunham open up new forms of language for questions around gender and abstraction.","brand":"The Museum of Modern Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42664207613988,"sku":"9781633451650","price":79.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9781633451650.jpg?v=1780516534","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/vital-signs","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}