Body art : performing the subject / Amelia Jones.

  • Jones, Amelia.
Date:
[1998], ©1998
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Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [1998], ©1998.

Physical description

xiv, 349 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-329) and index.

Contents

Postmodernism, subjectivity, and body art : a trajectory -- The "Pollockian performative" and the revision of the modernist subject -- The body in action : Vito Acconci and the "coherent" male artistic subject -- The rhetoric of the pose : Hannah Wilke and the radical narcissism of feminist body art -- Dispersed subjects and the demise of the "individual" : 1990s bodies in/as art.

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  • 081662772X
  • 9780816627721
  • 0816627738
  • 9780816627738