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Body Art
by Jennifer Dalton


*Cleaning House* by Peter Illig

Unlike the "endurance" artists of the 1970s who pushed their own bodies to physical limits, Janine Antoni makes art about the basic everyday processes of the body. She has made work about eating, sleeping, bathing, and cleaning.


*Resting, Weeping, Sleeping, Thinking* by Alice Zinnes

One of her most famous works is Gnaw, which consists of 500-pound blocks of chocolate and lard. She nibbled, chewed and gnawed at the hunks, and displayed the teeth-mark-pocked cubes. She also used the spit-out chocolate and lard to create sculptures of lipsticks and other objects.


*Figure 4 (sweet slumber)* by Christopher Fabbri

Another well-known work by Antoni is Loving Care, in which she put black dye in her long hair and used it to mop the gallery floor--dirtying it instead of cleaning it.


*Kyle's Liberation* by Brian Leighton

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