| Description |
xi, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Binary terror and the body made explicit. Re-vamping the ghosts of modernism. Beside herself: postmodern artists and modern whores. Eye/Body: Carolee Schneemann beside herself -- 2. Logic of the twister, eye of the storm. Impasse: unnatural acts. Twister: looking into looking out -- 3. Permission to see. Gender in perspective: have we really gone beyond? Refusal to vanish. Castration anxiety in perspective. Ghostly horrors: looking at the past, seeing through the body -- 4. The secret's eye. No accident: commodity bodies. Embodying disembodiment. Radical sex activism, satiability, and the commodity. Two-way streetwalkers. Explosive literality. Literal shrouds and dreamscape re-interments -- 5. After us the savage goddess. Seeing back through. Primitive techniques. Dark continence: reading the thrall and the threat. Dark incontinence: Ubu Roi and savage primitivism. Dada's big drum: primitivism and the performative. Hard primitivism, base matter, and the blindspot |
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Literal primitives -- 6. Seeing the big show. First, a story about doubt that includes a reverberation. White nostalgia, authenticity, and the split subject. Spiderwoman: the early days. Vigilant repetitions, the comic turn, and counter-mimicry. The irruption of "real stuff" and the politic of sacrality. The irruption of grandmothers and the reality of dreams -- Epilog: returning from the dead |
| Summary |
Auth : Yale University & Dartmouth College |
| Notes |
'Among the many artists discussed are Carole Schneeman, Karen Finley, Ana Mendieta, Sandra Bernhard, Annie Sprinkle, Robbie McCauley, Ann Magnuson, and Spiderwoman.' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-224) and index |
| Notes |
Also available in print edition |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Arts, Modern -- 20th century.
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Feminism and the arts -- United States.
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Feminism and the arts.
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Human figure in art.
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Nude in art.
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Performance art.
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Women artists -- Psychology.
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Performance art -- United States.
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Women in art.
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| LC no. |
97137002 |
| ISBN |
0415090253 (hbk.) |
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0415090261 (paperback) |
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