Now these rarely seen works are on view at the Wallach Art Gallery. By Sara Aridi The subject ... that women and men should conceal intimate body parts — cannot be traced to a clear-cut scroll ...

As such, art is therapy for our entire body, promoting well-being and helping us live healthier lives." 3 Viewing art and mental health Many studies have demonstrated stress reduction after ...

Tattoos. Body paint. Henna. All these are popular kinds of body art with varying histories and cultural connotations, many going back centuries or even longer. They all have something in common ...

The bodily sensations evoked by art also contributed to the emotions: the stronger the body's reaction was to the artwork, the stronger were the emotions experienced by the subject," says ...

“There is no ‘human’ body anymore,” the art historian W.J.T. Mitchell wrote in 1995, “there is the gendered body, the desiring body, the racialized body, the medical body, the sculpted ...