Contract With The Skin : Masochism, Performance Art, and the 1970s /

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Focusing on 1970s performance artists Vito Acconci, Chris Burden, Gina Pane, and collaborators Marina Abramovi`c[accent over c]/Ulay as well as those with similar sensibilities from the late 1980s onward (Bob Flanagan, David Wojnarowicz, Simon Leung, Catherine Opie, Ron Athey, Lutz Bacher, and Robby...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Dell, Kathy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bodyart.
Performances.
Performance art.
Masochism in art.
ART > Criticism & Theory.
ART > Performance.
ART > Reference.
Masochisme dans l'art.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Focusing on 1970s performance artists Vito Acconci, Chris Burden, Gina Pane, and collaborators Marina Abramovi`c[accent over c]/Ulay as well as those with similar sensibilities from the late 1980s onward (Bob Flanagan, David Wojnarowicz, Simon Leung, Catherine Opie, Ron Athey, Lutz Bacher, and Robby Garfinkel), O'Dell provides photographic documentation of performances and quotations from interviews with many of the artists. Throughout, O'Dell asks what we can do about the institutionalized forms of masochism for which these performances are metaphors.
Physical Description:1 online resource (144 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780816687794

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