Articles from Billy Stroud

Skin Deep

author: Billy Stroud : Chicago, IL
Friday, May 20th, 2005

Skin Deep

author: Billy Stroud : Chicago, IL

Skin Deep - an art exhibit. Chicago, I-space gallery June 10 - July 9, 2005 www.ispace.uiuc.edu In the art world in the United States and Western Europe, concerns over the human body, body image, and cultural representations and signifying processes have been a major topic of creative practice and critical inquiry for at least two decades. 1 Feminist scholars have devoted a lot of attention to the ways in which the media inform how women and girls see their own bodies, and the ways in which individuals cope with social and media pressure to conform to certain body images. We are interested...