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A central motif throughout the history of visual
art, the human form has been used as both a representative of communal
values and a means to illustrate the particularities of individual
identity. Over the last decade, the body has also become a particularly
potent means of expressing political, social, and economic ideas.
Either whole or divided, the figure is never simply an object of
identification or gratification. It takes on the renewed importance
of allegorizing human experience in a world where the integrity
of the self is in doubt, voyeurism is continually challenged, and
stereotypes are scorned.
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