El Cuerpo Femenino En El Arte / The Female Body in Art - by Amy Dempsey & Hettie Judah (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

THE FEMALE BODY IN ART From the Renaissance to the present day, this is the history of art told through the female form, with over 80 works of art. A cultural mirror of the times, the female body has captivated both artists and audiences for centuries. But what can we learn from these portrayals of women? What are they trying to tell us about the world we live in? And how has that changed over time? From the luminous portraiture of Gustav Klimt to Lee Miller's astonishing wartime photography and the ground-breaking performance art of Marina Abramovic, Amy Dempsey takes us on an exploration of the evolution of the female body in art. Meet Sandro Botticelli's Venus, Leonor Fini's shepherdess, Barkley L. Hendricks's Madonna and Toyin Ojih Odutola's adventuresses to discover how the invisible have become visible, the overlooked have been represented, and art has left a changed world in its wake. Amy Dempsey is an art historian, writer and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

About the Author

Amy Dempsey is an art historian who studied at Hunter College in New York and received her doctorate from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Dempsey is the author of the international bestseller Styles, Schools & Movements: The Essential Encyclopaedic Guide to Modern Art (2002, 2010, updated and revised edition 2026), the groundbreaking Destination Art (2006, 2011), the first monographs on Almuth Tebbenhoff (2025) and Alfio Bonanno (2020), and three titles in Thames & Hudson's Art Essentials series: Modern Art (2018), Surrealism (2019) and Destinat Hettie Judah is a writer and curator. She is a regular contributor to The Guardian, Frieze, The Times Literary Supplement, and Apollo magazine. Her recent shows include the Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition 'Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, ' which opened at the Arnolfini in Bristol in March 2024. As a public speaker and broadcaster, she can be heard on programs such as BBC Radio 4's Front Row. Her recent books include How Not To Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents) (Lund Humphries, 2022), Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones (John Murray, London, 2022) and Acts of Creation: