bodies of work

Collected artistic productions

Bodies of work is the plural of body of work—the collected output of a creative person or group.

An artist's body of work encompasses everything they've produced; bodies of work allows comparison across creators: The museum exhibited the bodies of work of three influential photographers.

The phrase implies substantial, coherent output rather than scattered pieces.

oeuvreComplete artistic output
creative outputWork produced through imagination
compilationsGathered sets of works
creationsThings made anew
choreographiesComposed dance arrangements

projects · collections · collected writings · dissertations · paintings · symphonies · films · oral histories · bibliographies · monographs · screenplays · genealogies · archives · sculptures · art installations · folk dances · journal articles · theater plays

Opposites

scope/aggregation

bodies of workone-off

Singular, unrepeated instance

single entry · fragment · excerpt

creative output vs. absence

bodies of workunproductivity

Failure to yield results

blank slate · unrealized potential · dormancy · fallow period

coherence/unity

bodies of workfragments

Incomplete broken pieces

scattered pieces · miscellany · odds and ends

Family

work, bodies, works, bodily, bodied, worked, working, worker, workers

Familiarity: Top 100,000
Profile: Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G