Vital Signs: Artists and the Body 4th Born and raised in Chicago

Born and raised in Chicago

anthropologist Marisol de la Cadena and curator Camila Marambio also figures in the book

The book begins with three feature essays that consider Cameron and Woodman simultaneously and moves on to 10 thematic sections interspersing works by the two artists

Porcelain white celadon salt cellar

and which also include her quipus ("knot" in Quechua)

Vital Signs: Artists and the Body 4th Born and raised in ChicagoAn impressive and wide ranging showcase of mostly women and gender expansive artists whose work intertwines fluid ideas of embodiment with capacious models of abstraction This stunningly illustrated exhibition catalog looks closely at how abstraction in art is often intimately tied with shifting ideas of the bodily. Bringing together seemingly unalike categories such as figurative abstract, self other and exotic banal into newly fused configurations,