The Explicit Body in Performance - Hardcover

Rebecca Schneider

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9780415090254: The Explicit Body in Performance
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415090253 ISBN 13: 9780415090254
Publisher: Routledge, 1997

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.

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About the Author

Rebecca Schneider lectures at Yale University is Visiting Assistant Professor of Drama at Dartmouth College. She is a contributing editor to The Drama Review and has published essays in a range of performance anthologies.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415090253
ISBN 13 
9780415090254
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
250
Rating
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