Does "Restoring Body to Vision" in the following text mean "the return of body to the vision i.e. the return of body images to the world of visual art"?
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Chapter 5 titled "Eye and Gaze: Restoring Body to Vision" will expand on the theme of narcissism, showing how it is linked to the ego’s structuring of the field of perspectival vision and how Jacques Lacan’s notion of the gaze can be used to unseat this visual mastery... As a reaction to this type of art, in the 1990s there was a return to the body in art and more of an appreciation of a direct relation to visceral materials. A key exhibition is the 1993 Whitney exhibition ‘Abject Art: Desire and Repulsion in American Art’, which included artists such as Mike Kelley, Cindy Sherman, Yayoi Kusama, Robert Mapplethorpe, Kiki Smith, Louise Bourgeois and Andres Serrano. These artists explore bodily boundaries in terms of social taboo and transgression, and Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic ideas of abjection were key to the reception of this kind of work, as well as generating a renewed interest in the work of Bourgeois, whose work spans the twentieth century and is a good indication of how trends in critical theories such as psychoanalysis fall out of and come back into fashion (Art and Psychoanalysis by Maria Walsh).
e. the return of body images to the world of visual art"? It's hard to say.
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cattttDoes "Restoring Body to Vision" in the following text mean "the return of body to the vision i.e. the return of body images to the world of visual art"?
It's hard to say. On the face of it, "restoring body to vision" is ungramatical and meaningless. In the context of this work, I have to guess that it relates more to art criticism than to the art itse