VISUAL ARTS

    Pictures of the Body

    Pictures of the Body

    Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)

    February 5-April 10, 2011


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    While artists in the past explored and recorded the body as a means of understanding its structure and operation, in recent decades contemporary artists have increasingly employed representations of the body as a means to address issues about the nature of the self and subjective identity. This installation drawn primarily from PAFA’s permanent collection brings together over 30 works that reveal the innumerable ways that artists have focused on the human body since the 1950s. In contrast to the earlier academic concern with anatomy as a source of verifiable visual knowledge, this renewed interest in the body employs anatomical and medical imagery for differing philosophical ends. Understanding that the body is not a singular anatomical entity but is layered into a complex socio-political, scientific, and cultural network, contemporary artists now employ the human form in their work as a way of engaging questions about unity, fragmentation and the mediation of the body in contemporary society.


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      • Venue Info

        Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)

        118 & 128 N. Broad Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19102

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      • Admission Info

        Tickets:

        Admission to the Permanent Collection: $10
        Senior (60+) and Students with I.D.: $8
        Youth ages (13-18): $8
        Child (12 and under, excluding groups): FREE
        Admission to Special Exhibitions (includes the Permanent Collection): $15
        Senior (60+) and Students with I.D.: $12
        Youth ages (13-18): $12
        Child (12 and under, excluding groups): FREE
        Morris Gallery exhibitions and the ground floor of the Historic Landmark Building are free.

      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        February 5-April 10, 2011

        Times:

        Tuesday-Saturday, 10 am-5 pm
        Sunday, 11 am-5 pm

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