The explicit body in performance / Rebecca Schneider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schneider, Rebecca.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism and the arts.

Women in art.

Performance art.

Arts, Modern--20th century.

Arts, Modern.

Women artists--Psychology.

Women artists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 postcolon

Contents:

Cover; The Explicit Body in Performance; Copyright; Contents; List of plates; Acknowledgments; Introduction; GHOST OF THE AVANT-GARDE; DESIRE AND THE SATIATE BODY; TWISTING THE MAP; 1 Binary terror and the body made explicit; RE-VAMPING THE GHOSTS OF MODERNISM; BESIDE HERSELF: POSTMODERN ARTISTS AND MODERN WHORES; EYE/BODY: CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN BESIDE HERSELF; 2 Logic of the twister, eye of the storm; IMPASSE: UNNATURAL ACTS; TWISTER: LOOKING INTO LOOKING OUT; 3 Permission to see; GENDER IN PERSPECTIVE: HAVE WE REALLY GONE BEYOND?; REFUSAL TO VANISH

GHOSTLY HORRORS: LOOKING AT THE PAST, SEEING THROUGH THE BODY4 The secret's eye; NO ACCIDENT: COMMODITY BODIES; EMBODYING DISEMBODIMENT; RADICAL SEX ACTIVISM, SATIABILITY, AND THE COMMODITY; TWO-WAY STREETWALKERS; EXPLOSIVE LITERALITY; LITERAL SHROUDS AND DREAMSCAPE RE-INTERMENTS; 5 After us the savage goddess; SEEING BACK THROUGH; PRIMITIVE TECHNIQUES; DARK CONTINENCE: READING THE THRALL AND THE THREAT; DARK INCONTINENCE: UBU ROJ AND SAVAGE PRIMITMSM; DADA'S BIG DRUM: PRIMITIVISM AND THE PERFORMATIVE; HARD PRIMITMSM, BASE MATTER, AND THE BLIND SPOT; LITERAL PRIMITIVES; 6 Seeing the big show

FIRST, A STORY ABOUT DOUBT THAT INCLUDES AREVE RBERATIONWHITE NOSTALGIA, AUTHENTICITY, AND THE SPLIT SUBJECT; SPIDER WOMAN: THE EARLY DAYS; VIGILANT REPETITIONS, THE COMIC TURN, AND COUNTER-MIMICRY; THE IRRUPTION OF ""REAL STUFF"" AND THE POLITIC OF SACRALITY; THE IRRUPTION OF GRANDMOTHERS AND THE REALITY OF DREAMS; Epilog: returning from the dead; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-224) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-87692-0

1-280-32159-8

0-203-42107-8

1-134-87693-9

0-415-09025-3

9780203421079

OCLC:

52079215