'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 postmodernism. The result is a wonderful and permissive space in which the viewer/reader can wander, guided not only by her or his own will and desire but also by Jones's brilliant cartography.' Moira Roth, Trefethen Professor of Art History, Mills College - from the back cover
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REF.JOA
Language
English
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Publication/Creation date
1998
No of pages
351
ISBN / ISSN
9780816627738
No of copies
1
Content type
monograph
Chapter headings
1. Postmodernism, Subjectivity, and Body Art: A Trajectory
2. The 'Pollockian Performative' and the Revision of the Modernist Subject
3. The Body in Action: Vito Acconci and the 'Coherent' Male Artistic Subject
4. The Rhetoric of the Pose: Hannah Wilke and the Radical Narcissism of Feminist Body Art
5. Dispersed Subjects and the Demise of the 'Individual': 1990s Bodies in/as Art
Body Art: Performing the Subject
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