THE EXPLICIT BODY IN PERFORMANCE by Rebecca Schneider ( 9780415090254 )

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Title:

THE EXPLICIT BODY IN PERFORMANCE

By:

Rebecca Schneider

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0415090253

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9780415090254

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

23 January, 1997

Pages:

250

Description:

An in-depth and accessible study of the controversial and often shocking issues which surround the use of the female body in performance art.

Synopsis:

The Explicit Body in Performance interrogates the avant-garde precedents and theoretical terrain that combined to produce feminist performance art. Among the many artists discussed are: * Carolle Schneemann * Annie Sprinkle * Karen Finley * Robbie McCauley * Ana Mendieta * Ann Magnuson * Sandra Bernhard * Spiderwoman Rebecca Schneider tackles topics ranging across the 'post-porn modernist movement', New Right censorship, commodity fetishism, perspectival vision, and primitivism. Employing diverse critical theories from Benjamin to Lacan to postcolonial and queer theory, Schneider analyses artistic and pop cultural depictions of the explicit body in late commodity capitalism. The Explicit Body in Performance is complemented by extensive photographic illustrations and artistic productions of postmodern feminist practitioners. The book is a fascinating exploration of how these artists have wrestled with the representational structures of desire.

Illustrations:

10 b&w photographs

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Imprint:

Routledge

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