What the Body Cost: Desire, History, and Performance

ISBN-13: 9780816643196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 184 str.

Jane Blocker

Opis

Blocker (art history, U. of Minnesota) examines performance art works by Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci, Hannah Wilke, Yves Klein, Ana Mendieta, and others, in a challenge to earlier critiques that characterize performance, or body art, solely as a revolutionary art form. She argues that the acceptance of the body in art came at a price, that th