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What the Body Cost : Desire, History, and Performance by Jane Blocker (2004, Hardcover)
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Authors : Blocker, Jane. What The Body Cost: Desire, History, And Performance. Title : What The Body Cost: Desire, History, And Performance. Since 2001. Binding : Hardcover. Publisher : Univ Of Minnesota Press.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
ISBN-100816643180
ISBN-139780816643189
eBay Product ID (ePID)30203894
Product Key Features
Book TitleWhat the Body Cost : Desire, History, and Performance
Number of Pages184 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2004
TopicBODYART & Tattooing, General, Performance
IllustratorYes
GenreArt, Performing Arts
AuthorJane Blocker
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN2003-027029
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal700
SynopsisReexamines rebelliousness and desire in the history of performance art 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's discourse in which practitioners, historians, and critics alike fervently seek the body while doubting it can ever be found.
LC Classification NumberN6494.B63B58 2004
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