The Explicit Body in Performance

Rebecca Schneider

ISBN 10: 0415090261 / ISBN 13: 9780415090261

Published by Routledge 1997-01-23, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Explicit Body in Performance
• Publisher: Routledge 1997-01-23
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415090261
• ISBN 13: 9780415090261
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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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.

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.