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Body art (Topical Term)
Used for/see from:
- Art, Body
- Body works (Art)
See also:
- Broader heading: Art, Modern 20th century
- Broader heading: Performance art
Segen's medical dictionary, ©2012, via TheFreeDictionary.com, Sept. 21, 2012 (Body Art: The practice of adorning the body with piercings, tattoos, brandings, or scarifications)
Wikipedia, Sept. 21, 2012 (Body art is art made on, with, or consisting of, the human body. The most common forms of body art are tattoos and body piercings, but other types include scarification, branding, subdermal implants, scalpelling, shaping (for example tight-lacing of corsets), full body tattoo and body painting. ... Body art is also a sub-category of performance art, in which artists use or abuse their own body to make their particular statements.)