Editing Body art (section)

{{short description|Art with the human body}}[[File:Yonga_Arts_4.jpg|thumb|305x305px|Body painting]]'''Body art''' is [[art]] in which the artist uses their [[human]] body as the primary medium.<ref name="Contemporary Art p. 88">Oxford Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, Oxford University, p. 88</ref> Emerging from the context of [[Conceptual Art]] during the 1970s,<ref name="Contemporary Art p. 88" /> Body art may include [[performance art]]. Body art is likewise utilized for investigations of the body in an assortment of different media including [[painting]], [[casting]], [[photography]], [[film]] and [[video]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Tate|title=Body art – Art Term|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/b/body-art|access-date=2021-08-11|website=Tate|language=en-GB}}</ref> More extreme body art can involve mutilation or pushing the body to its physical limits.

In more recent times, the [[Human body|body]] has become a subject of much broader discussion and treatment than can be reduced to body art in its common understanding. Important strategies that question the [[human body]] are: [[implant (body modification)|implants]], body in [[symbiosis]] with the [[new technologies]], [[Virtuality|virtual]] avatar bodies, among others.