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Autore |
Schneider Rebecca |
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Titolo |
The explicit body in performance / / Rebecca Schneider |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-87692-0 |
1-280-32159-8 |
0-203-42107-8 |
1-134-87693-9 |
0-415-09025-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st edition] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Feminism and the arts |
Women in art |
Performance art |
Arts, Modern - 20th century |
Women artists - Psychology |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-224) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; The Explicit Body in Performance; Copyright; Contents; List of plates; Acknowledgments; Introduction; GHOST OF THE AVANT-GARDE; DESIRE AND THE SATIATE BODY; TWISTING THE MAP; 1 Binary terror and the body made explicit; RE-VAMPING THE GHOSTS OF MODERNISM; BESIDE HERSELF: POSTMODERN ARTISTS AND MODERN WHORES; EYE/BODY: CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN BESIDE HERSELF; 2 Logic of the twister, eye of the storm; IMPASSE: UNNATURAL ACTS; TWISTER: LOOKING INTO LOOKING OUT; 3 Permission to see; GENDER IN PERSPECTIVE: HAVE WE REALLY GONE BEYOND?; REFUSAL TO VANISH |
GHOSTLY HORRORS: LOOKING AT THE PAST, SEEING THROUGH THE BODY4 The secret's eye; NO ACCIDENT: COMMODITY BODIES; EMBODYING DISEMBODIMENT; RADICAL SEX ACTIVISM, SATIABILITY, AND THE COMMODITY; TWO-WAY STREETWALKERS; EXPLOSIVE LITERALITY; LITERAL SHROUDS AND DREAMSCAPE RE-INTERMENTS; 5 After us the savage goddess; SEEING BACK THROUGH; PRIMITIVE |
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TECHNIQUES; DARK CONTINENCE: READING THE THRALL AND THE THREAT; DARK INCONTINENCE: UBU ROJ AND SAVAGE PRIMITMSM; DADA'S BIG DRUM: PRIMITIVISM AND THE PERFORMATIVE; HARD PRIMITMSM, BASE MATTER, AND THE BLIND SPOT; LITERAL PRIMITIVES; 6 Seeing the big show |
FIRST, A STORY ABOUT DOUBT THAT INCLUDES AREVE RBERATIONWHITE NOSTALGIA, AUTHENTICITY, AND THE SPLIT SUBJECT; SPIDER WOMAN: THE EARLY DAYS; VIGILANT REPETITIONS, THE COMIC TURN, AND COUNTER-MIMICRY; THE IRRUPTION OF ""REAL STUFF"" AND THE POLITIC OF SACRALITY; THE IRRUPTION OF GRANDMOTHERS AND THE REALITY OF DREAMS; Epilog: returning from the dead; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 postcolon |
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