Five Radical Female Artists Who Used Their Body as a Canvas

Lea Vergine's seminal 1974 book, Body Art and Performance: The Body as Language played a fundamental role in defining and popularising performance art – a conceptual genre in which an artist uses their body as a medium, and live actions subsequently become art, whether planned or spontaneous. Now, on the 40th anniversary of its inception, the tome forms the basis of a dynamic new exhibition – The Body As Language: Women and Performance…