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Sexuality - Documents of Contemporary Art
This anthology traces how and why this identification of art with sexual expression or repression arose and how the terms have shifted in tandem with artistic and theoretical debates.
Performative Gestures Political Moves
12 different authors to share their thoughts about the »performativity«.
Erotic Ambiguities – The Female Nude in Art
A study of how contemporary women artists have reconceptualised the figure of the female nude.
Danse: An Anthology
A collection of key writings on choreography across the French, U.S and international dance scenes since the turn of the century.
Where is Ana Mendieta? Identity, Performativity, and Exile
Taken from banners carried in a 1992 protest outside the Guggenheim Museum, the title phrase 'Where is Ana Mendieta?' evokes not only the suspicious and tragic circumstances surrounding her death but also the conspicuous absence of women artists from high-profile exhibitions. Drawing on the work of such theorists as Judith Butler, Joseph Roach, Edward Said, and Homi Bhabha, Jane Blocker discusses the power of Mendieta's earth-and-body art to alter, unsettle, and broaden terms of identity itself.
Perform, Repeat, Record: Live Art in History
Bringing together contributors from dance, theatre, visual studies, and art history, the publication addresses the conundrum of how Live Art is positioned within history.
Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject, A Reader
Addresses the multi-layered issue of camp, whose inexhaustible breadth of reference and theoretical relevance to the issues taken up by academic research in recent years have made it one of the most salient and challenging issues on the contemporary critical stage.
Interfaces of Performance
On Performance and Performativity
In what ways does the experience of live art counter the ideological readings of place, context and significantly, gendered codification?
Found in miscellaneous article folder #5
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
