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Body Art/performing the Subject
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Amelia Jones
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

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"With great originality and scholarship, Amelia Jones maps out an extraordinary history of body art over the last three decades and embeds it in the theoretical
Performing the Body/Performing the Text
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Amelia Jones
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-08-12 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book explores the new performativity in art theory and practice, examining ways of rethinking interpretive processes in visual culture. Since the 1960s, vi
The Scar of Visibility
Language: en
Pages: 314
Authors: Petra Küppers
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

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In The Scar of Visibility, Petra Kuppers examines the use of medical imagery practices in contemporary art, as well as different arts of everyday life. Among th
What the Body Cost
Language: en
Pages: 334
Authors: Jane Blocker
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

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Because performance is by its very nature ephemeral, it elicits a desire for what is lost more than any other form of art making. But what is the nature of that
The Artist's Body
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Tracey Warr
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-02 - Publisher: Phaidon Press

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A survey of the use of the artist's body in 20th-century art.