Performing the Body/Performing the Text / Edition 1

by Amelia Jones, Andrew Stephenson Nfa, Andrew Stephenson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415190602
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/20/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Andrew Stephenson, Amelia Jones, Andrew Stephenson Nfa

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Kantian Performativity in Art History Karen Lang
2. Performing Modernity: The Art of Art History Donald Preziosi
3. Art History/Art Criticism: Performing Meaning Amelia Jones
4. Cross Cultural Reiteration: Demetra Vaka Brown and the Performance of Racialized Female Beauty Reina Lewis
5. Race, Ritual, and Responsibility: Performativity and the Southern Lynching ^Michael Hatt
6. Shading Meaning Jennifer Brody
7. The Greatest Homosexual? Camp Pleasure and the Performative Body of Larry Rivers Gavin Butt
8.The Politics of Feminist Spectatorship and the Disruptive Body: De Kooning's Woman Reconsidered Fionna Barber
9. Catholic Tastes: Hurting and Healing the Body in Vienese Actionism in the 1960's Philip Ursprung
10. Contests for Meaning in Body politics and Feminist Conceptual Art Discourses: Revisioning the 1970's through the Work of Eleanor Antin Lisa Bloom
11. Dismembership: Jasper Johns and the Body Politic Jonathan Katz
12. Peforming the Clits and Other Lesbian Tricks: Speculations on an Aesthetics of Lack B.J. Wray
13. Renaming Untitled Flesh / Marking the Politics of Marginality Meiling Cheng
14. Andy Warhol: Performances of Death in America Peggy Phelan15. Stuff Nao Bustamante and Coco Fusco

Editorial Reviews

'Among the other contributions are six or so outstanding essays. Best of these have to be Gavin Butt's piece on Larry Rivers' enactment of camp sensibility and Phelan's unveiling of Warhol's accumulated American deaths. Butt and Phelan go a long way to indicating what a genuinely new art history might feel like, performing their subject from the inside in a generous identification that nevertheless resists predictable positions.' - Mark Harris, Art Monthly

'I found ... the articles included in Performing the Body/Performing theText compelling.' - Jennie Klein, A Journal of Performance and Art

From the Publisher

Academics and one graduate student<-->in art history, film, feminism, gay studies, and performance art<-->and one performance artist, are the contributors to this volume. Jones (contemporary art, U. of California, Riverside) and Stephenson (art history, U. of East London, England) selected papers rich in theoretical discourse on topics that range from 19th-century depictions of black women to new interpretations of canonical fine artists, including Manet, de Kooning, and Jasper Johns, to contemporary performance artists, including Vito Acconci, Holly Hunter, Gunter Brus and the Sacred Naked Nature Girls. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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