Body Art/performing the Subject
Title | Body Art/performing the Subject PDF eBook |
Author | Amelia Jones |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | 372 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780816627738 |
"With great originality and scholarship, Amelia Jones maps out an extraordinary history of body art over the last three decades and embeds it in the theoretical terrain of postmoderism. The result is a wonderful and permissive space in which the viewer...can wander"...-Moira Roth, Trefethen professor of art history, Mills College.
Body Art/ Performing the Subject
Title | Body Art/ Performing the Subject PDF eBook |
Author | Amelia Jones |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780816627738 |
Body Art/performing the Subject
Title | Body Art/performing the Subject PDF eBook |
Author | Amelia Jones |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 349 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780816627721 |
Amelia Jones maps out an extraordinary history of body art over the last three decades and embeds it in the theoretical terrain of postmoderism.
Performing the Body/Performing the Text
Title | Performing the Body/Performing the Text PDF eBook |
Author | Amelia Jones |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 2005-08-12 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1134655932 |
This book explores the new performativity in art theory and practice, examining ways of rethinking interpretive processes in visual culture. Since the 1960s, visual art practices - from body art to minimalism - have taken contemporary art outside the museum and gallery; by embracing theatricality and performance and exploding the boundaries set by traditional art criticism. The contributors argue that interpretation needs to be recognised as much more dynamic and contingent. Offering its own performance script, and embracing both canonical fine artists such as Manet, De Kooning and Jasper Johns, and performance artists such as Vito Acconci and Gunter Brus, this book offers radical re-readings of art works and points confidently towards new models for understanding art.
What the Body Cost
Title | What the Body Cost PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Blocker |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | 334 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780816643189 |
Because performance is by its very nature ephemeral, it elicits a desire for what is lost more than any other form of art making. But what is the nature of that desire, and on what models has it been structured? How has it affected the ways in which the history of performance art gets told? In What the Body Cost, Jane Blocker revisits key works in performance art by Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci, Hannah Wilke, Yves Klein, Ana Mendieta, and others to challenge earlier critiques that characterize performance, or body art, as a purely revolutionary art form and fail to recognize its reactionary-and sometimes damaging-effects. The scholarship to date on performance art has not, she finds, gone far enough in locating the body at the center of the performance, nor has it acknowledged the psychic, emotional, or social costs exacted on that body. Drawing on the work of critical theorists such as Roland Barthes and Catherine Belsey, as well as queer theory and feminism, What the Body Cost reads against patriarchal and heteronormative tendencies in art history while providing a corrective to the established view that performance art is necessarily transgressive. Instead, Blocker suggests that the historiography of performance art is a postmodern lovers' discourse in which practitioners, historians, and critics alike fervently seek the body while doubting it can ever be found. Jane Blocker is assistant professor of art history at the University of Minnesota and author of Where Is Ana Mendieta? Identity, Performativity, and Exile (1999).
The Artist's Body
Title | The Artist's Body PDF eBook |
Author | Tracey Warr |
Publisher | Phaidon Press |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2012-04-02 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780714863931 |
A survey of the use of the artist's body in 20th-century art.
Body Art and Performance
Title | Body Art and Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Lea Vergine |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 300 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Containing Lea Vergine's insight on the 'golden age' of the Body Art movement and writings by the artists featured, this text focuses on the artistic endeavour that uses the body as expressive material.