Borderline Bodies in Art and Visual Culture

Keren Rosa Hammerschlag is a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorship at the Australian National UniversityNatasha Ruiz-Gómez is a Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of EssexTania Cleaves (née Woloshyn) is an alternative-academic and Research Development Manager at the University of Nottingham

• Introduction: Borderline bodies — Tania Cleaves, Keren Rosa Hammerschlag and Natasha Ruiz-GómezPart I Across borders: bodies in motion1 Phantoms of race: Shibata Koichi’s models, midwifery and racial discourse in late nineteenth-century medical culture — Sonia Favi and Rebecca Whiteley2 Lithographic yoga: posters of the yoga body in early twentieth-century Bengal — Projit Bihari Mukharji3 Harmonious anatomies: dissecting Liu Xiaoxian’s marriage of medical opposites — Alex Burchmore4 Place/placelessness: Moshekwa Langa — Gabriella NugentPart II At the border: bodies collide5 Monstrous: Paul Richer’s La Femme, anthropology and race — Natasha Ruiz-Gómez6 Draughtsman Jacques Arago and racialised distortion — Liz Conor7 ‘That feeling of love and care and empathy’: Angel De Cora, Stacey Fayant, a Once Known Maker and Christi Belcourt Reclaiming the Indigenous body — Gloria J. Bell8 Coatlicue, monstrous beauty. Four postcolonial images — Frida GorbachPart III Without borders: bodily dissolution9 Seen by the camera: Nudes of All Nations — Tania Cleaves10 Matchless for the hands and complexion: James McNeill Whistler’s Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony — Keren Rosa Hammerschlag11 A picture of health: undressing patients, redressing photographs — Zeynep Devrim Gürsel12 Tala Madani and the abjection of motherhood — Holiday PowersAfterword Seeing is (not) believing — Sander L. Gilman

'In an era that fears breakdown of bodily boundaries and immunities, the chapters in Borderline Bodies challenge us to embrace deviance and exposure and openness. This book signals a transgressive new corporeal turn - a postcolonial materialism - in the borderspaces of health humanities.'—Warwick Anderson, author of Intolerant Bodies and Spectacles of Waste‘This groundbreaking volume of interdisciplinary visual studies provides wide-ranging analyses of the complex cultures of Borderline bodies across our globalised world. Disrupting scholarly boundaries in art, medicine and society and customary views on gender, race and ethnicity, the authors offer important new insights into visual representations of borderline and marginal human bodies.’—Anthea Callen, Professor Emeritus of Visual Culture, University of Nottingham‘A very exciting volume that is sure to stimulate multiple fields of inquiry.’—Andrew Graciano, Director of the School of Visual Art and Design, University of South Carolina‘Ambitiously traversing diverse geographies, historical periods, and interdisciplinary methodologies, these essays offer vivid, meticulously fine-grained analyses of a panoply of visual materials. Borderline Bodies reveals the generative potentials of specific “contact points” between disciplines, media, and identity formations, and develops innovative conceptual tools for studying representations relating to multiply-marginalised bodies.’—Roger Nelson, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore