Fluid Flesh: The Body, Religion, and the Visual Arts

How do we relate the body we have and the bodies we see to the mind, or to the soul? Fluid Flesh addresses the relationship between the body, religion, and the visual arts, which is one of both love and tension. Are we able (and allowed) to think of the divine in a corporeal way? Isn't artistic expression, which originated from both the human mind and body, intrinsically a bodily matter? Featuring an introduction from James Elkins, Fluid Flesh covers an array of topics including the visual as…