The Explicit Body in Performance

Rebecca Schneider

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Routledge
23 January 1997

Theory of art; Performance art; Erotic art; Gender studies: women

Is it Performance Art or Pornography? The Explicity Body in Performance interrogates the avant-garde precedents and theoretical terrain that combined to produce feminist performance art. Among the many artists discussed are

Carolee Scheemann

Karen Finley

Sandra Bernhard

Annie Sprinkle

Robbie McCauley

Spiderwoman Rebecca Schneider tackles topics ranging across the 'post-porn modernist movement', New Right censorship, commodity fetishism, and primitivism. Employing diverse critical theories from Benjamin to Lacanian psychoanalysis Schneider analyses artistic depictions of the explicit body in late commodity capitalism. The Explicit Body in Performance is complemented by extensive photographic illustrations of the performative and artistic productions of postmodern feminist practitioners. The book is a fascinating explorations of how these artists have wrestled with

the representational structures of desire.

By: Rebecca Schneider
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 620g
ISBN: 9780415090254
ISBN 10: 0415090253
Pages: 250
Publication Date: 23 January 1997
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rebecca Schneider lectures at Yale University is Visiting Assistant Professor of Drama at Dartmouth College. She is a contributing editor to The Drama Review and has published essays in a range of performance anthologies.

Reviews for The Explicit Body in Performance

I would...encourage people to take the time to read it. It will give them and insight into the world of feminist performance art and a knowledge of contemporary radical ideas in the deconstruction of gender. - Lesbian Sex Scandals ... gives in-depth analyses and explorations of the works of explicit body artists..and..provides valuable historical back-round on the movements and artists that inspired thier work. ...this is a valuable addition to the library of anyone interested in feminism and performance art.. -D.C. Culbertson, Baltimore Alternative ... undoubtedly an important contribution to performance studies... - Lesbian Review of Books