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.
The Explicit Body in Performance interrogates the avant-garde precedents and theoretical terrain that combined to produce feminist performance art. Among the many artists discussed are:
* Carolle Schneemann
* Annie Sprinkle
* Karen Finley
* Robbie McCauley
* Ana Mendieta
* Ann Magnuson
* Sandra Bernhard
* Spiderwoman
Rebecca Schneider tackles topics ranging across the 'post-porn modernist movement', New Right censorship, commodity fetishism, perspectival vision, and primitivism. Employing diverse critical theories from Benjamin to Lacan to postcolonial and queer theory, Schneider analyses artistic and pop cultural depictions of the explicit body in late commodity capitalism.
The Explicit Body in Performance is complemented by extensive photographic illustrations and artistic productions of postmodern feminist practitioners. The book is a fascinating exploration of how these artists have wrestled with the representational structures of desire.
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First book to look at feminist performance art and practictioners
Discusses all the key artists (Schveeman, Sprinkle et al) and relates their work to modernism, pornography etc
Hugely popular with avantgarde theatre goers as well as with theatre students and teachers
Introduction; Chapter 1 Binary terror and the body made explicit; Chapter 2 Logic of the twister, eye of the storm; Chapter 3 Permission to see; Chapter 4 The secret´s eye; Chapter 5 After us the savage goddess; Chapter 6 Seeing the big show; Epilog;
An in-depth and accessible study of the controversial and often shocking issues which surround the use of the female body in performance art.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; Chapter 1 Binary terror and the body made explicit; Chapter 2 Logic of the twister, eye of the storm; Chapter 3 Permission to see; Chapter 4 The secret's eye; Chapter 5 After us the savage goddess; Chapter 6 Seeing the big show; Epilog;
Klappentext
The Explicit Body in Performance interrogates the avant-garde precedents and theoretical terrain that combined to produce feminist performance art. Among the many artists discussed are:
* Carolle Schneemann
* Annie Sprinkle
* Karen Finley
* Robbie McCauley
* Ana Mendieta
* Ann Magnuson
* Sandra Bernhard
* Spiderwoman
Rebecca Schneider tackles topics ranging across the 'post-porn modernist movement', New Right censorship, commodity fetishism, perspectival vision, and primitivism. Employing diverse critical theories from Benjamin to Lacan to postcolonial and queer theory, Schneider analyses artistic and pop cultural depictions of the explicit body in late commodity capitalism.
The Explicit Body in Performance is complemented by extensive photographic illustrations and artistic productions of postmodern feminist practitioners. The book is a fascinating exploration of how these artists have wrestled with the representational structures of desire.
