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What The Body Cost: Desire, History, And Performance
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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What The Body Cost: Desire, History, And Performance
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Jane Blocker
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:184 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 254,Width 178 |
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| Category/Genre | Dance and other performing arts |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780816643196
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| Classifications | Dewey:791.01 |
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| Audience | | General | | Professional & Vocational | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
University of Minnesota Press
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| Imprint |
University of Minnesota Press
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| Publication Date |
14 May 2004 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
Drawing on the work of critical theorists such as Roland Barthes and Catherine Belsey, as well as queer theory and feminism, What the Body Cost reads against patriarchal and heteronormative tendencies in art history while providing a corrective to the established view that performance art is necessarily transgressive. Instead, Blocker suggests that the historiography of performance art is a postmodern lovers' discourse in which practitioners, historians, and critics alike fervently seek the body while doubting it can ever be found.
Author Biography
Jane Blocker is associate professor of art history at the University of Minnesota Press and the author of What the Body Cost: Desire, History, and Performance (Minnesota, 2004) and Where is Ana Mendieta? Identity, Performativity and Exile.
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