Explicit Body in Performance
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....
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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.BooknewsWhen the artist presents the human body in an explicit manner, who has the right to explicate that body and determine what it means? Schneider (drama, Dartmouth College) uses the phrase "explicit body" to address the ways in which recent feminist performance art and actions explicate bodies in social relation. After discussing historical precedents, she covers works ranging from Carolee Schneemann's of 1963 to the early 1990s works of Annie Sprinkle, Karen Finley, Ann Magnuson, Sandra Bernhard, and others. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
List of platesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction11Binary terror and the body made explicit12Re-vamping the ghosts of modernism21Beside herself: postmodern artists and modern whores28Eye/Body: Carolee Schneemann beside herself322Logic of the twister, eye of the storm43Impasse: unnatural acts46Twister: looking into looking out523Permission to see66Gender in perspective: have we really gone beyond?67Refusal to vanish71Castration anxiety in perspective77Ghostly horrors: looking at the past, seeing through the body834The secret's eye88No accident: commodity bodies92Embodying disembodiment97Radical sex activism, satiability, and the commodity104Two-way streetwalkers107Explosive literality114Literal shrouds and dreamscape re-interments1175After us the savage goddess126Seeing back through126Primitive techniques130Dark continence: reading the thrall and the threat134Dark incontinence: Ubu Roi and savage primitivism138Dada's big drum: primitivism and the performative141Hard primitivism, base matter, and the blindspot145Literal primitives1496Seeing the big show153First, a story about doubt that includes a reverberation153White nostalgia, authenticity, and the split subject159Spiderwoman: the early days163Vigilant repetitions, the comic turn, and counter-mimicry168The irruption of "real stuff" and the politic of sacrality172The irruption of grandmothers and the reality of dreams173Epilog: returning from the dead176Notes185Works cited213Index225
\ BooknewsWhen the artist presents the human body in an explicit manner, who has the right to explicate that body and determine what it means? Schneider (drama, Dartmouth College) uses the phrase "explicit body" to address the ways in which recent feminist performance art and actions explicate bodies in social relation. After discussing historical precedents, she covers works ranging from Carolee Schneemann's of 1963 to the early 1990s works of Annie Sprinkle, Karen Finley, Ann Magnuson, Sandra Bernhard, and others. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
