Leandro Allochis

by Rodrigo Alonso

The book addresses the nature and functioning of the representation of the body in the contemporary, from the perspective of the history of art, photography, fashion, iconography, semiotics and gender studies. Around the material-symbolic constitution of the body in the visual production of Leandro Allochis, six unpublished essays by researchers from Argentina, Spain and the United States provide keys for the reading of the body in the contemporary scene and its particular artistic materializations, through the use of of aesthetic repertoires of the artistic tradition, the popular imaginary...