Performing the Body/performing the TextAmelia Jones, Andrew Stephenson This book explores the new performativity in art theory and practice, examining ways of rethinking interpretive processes in visual culture. Since the 1960s, visual art practices - from body art to minimalism - have taken contemporary art outside the museum and gallery; by embracing theatricality and performance and exploding the boundaries set by traditional art criticism. The contributors argue that interpretation needs to be recognised as much more dynamic and contingent. Offering its own performance script, and embracing both canonical fine artists such as Manet, De Kooning and Jasper Johns, and performance artists such as Vito Acconci and Gunter Brus, this book offers radical re-readings of art works and points confidently towards new models for understanding art. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Kantian performativity in the history of art | 11 |
the art of art history | 29 |
performing meaning | 39 |
Demetra Vaka Brown and the performance of racialized female beauty | 56 |
performativity and the southern lynching | 76 |
6 Shading meaning | 89 |
7 The greatest homosexual? Camp pleasure and the performative body of Larry Rivers | 107 |
Jasper Johns and the body politic | 170 |
speculations on an aesthetics of lack | 186 |
marking the politics of marginality | 199 |
performances of Death in America | 223 |
a performance | 237 |
16 Following Acconcitargeting vision | 255 |
the work of Douglas Gordon | 273 |
18 What sense do the senses make? Aspects of corporeality in the works of Miriam Cahn and Maureen Connor | 283 |
de Koonings Woman I reconsidered | 127 |
hurting and healing the body in Viennese Actionism in the 1960s | 138 |
revisioning the 1970s through the work of Eleanor Antin | 153 |
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