Table of Contents

Introduction1. Kantian Performativity in Art History Karen Lang2. Performing Modernity: The Art of Art History Donald Preziosi3. Art History/Art Criticism: Performing Meaning Amelia Jones4. Cross Cultural Reiteration: Demetra Vaka Brown and the Performance of Racialized Female Beauty Reina Lewis5. Race, Ritual, and Responsibility: Performativity and the Southern Lynching ^Michael Hatt6. Shading Meaning Jennifer Brody7. The Greatest Homosexual? Camp Pleasure and the Performative Body of Larry Rivers Gavin Butt8.The Politics of Feminist Spectatorship and the Disruptive Body: De Kooning's Woman Reconsidered Fionna Barber9. Catholic Tastes: Hurting and Healing the Body in Vienese Actionism in the 1960's Philip Ursprung10. Contests for Meaning in Body politics and Feminist Conceptual Art Discourses: Revisioning the 1970's through the Work of Eleanor Antin Lisa Bloom11. Dismembership: Jasper Johns and the Body Politic Jonathan Katz12. Peforming the Clits and Other Lesbian Tricks: Speculations on an Aesthetics of Lack B.J. Wray13. Renaming Untitled Flesh / Marking the Politics of Marginality Meiling Cheng14. Andy Warhol: Performances of Death in America Peggy Phelan15. Stuff Nao Bustamante and Coco Fusco