Body Art: Performing the Subject

'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

Access level

Onsite

author

Amelia JONES

publisher

The University of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis, United States)

Location code

REF.JOA

Language

English

Keyword

body, performance art, art history, art theory

Publication/Creation date

1998

No of pages

351

ISBN / ISSN

9780816627738

No of copies

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

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