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What The Body Cost: Desire, History, And Performance
Jane Blocker
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Description for What The Body Cost: Desire, History, And Performance
Paperback. Num Pages: 162 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 177 x 9. Weight in Grams: 330.
Drawing on the work of critical theorists such as Roland Barthes and Catherine Belsey, as well as queer theory and feminism, What the Body Cost reads against patriarchal and heteronormative tendencies in art history while providing a corrective to the established view that performance art is necessarily transgressive. Instead, Blocker suggests that the historiography of performance art is a postmodern lovers' discourse in which practitioners, historians, and critics alike fervently seek the body while doubting it can ever be found.
Drawing on the work of critical theorists such as Roland Barthes and Catherine Belsey, as well as queer theory and feminism, What the Body Cost reads against patriarchal and heteronormative tendencies in art history while providing a corrective to the established view that performance art is necessarily transgressive. Instead, Blocker suggests that the historiography of performance art is a postmodern lovers' discourse in which practitioners, historians, and critics alike fervently seek the body while doubting it can ever be found.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
162
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816643196
SKU
V9780816643196
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About Jane Blocker
Jane Blocker is associate professor of art history at the University of Minnesota Press and the author of What the Body Cost: Desire, History, and Performance (Minnesota, 2004) and Where is Ana Mendieta? Identity, Performativity and Exile.
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