Explicit Body in Performance FROM THE PUBLISHER
What happens when a body is presented as a stage, and dramas unfold across it--is it Performance Art or pornography? The Explicit Body examines the controversial and often shocking issues which surround the use of the female body in performance art.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
When the artist presents the human body in an explicit manner, who has the right to explicate that body and determine what it means? Schneider (drama, Dartmouth College) uses the phrase "explicit body" to address the ways in which recent feminist performance art and actions explicate bodies in social relation. After discussing historical precedents, she covers works ranging from Carolee Schneemann's of 1963 to the early 1990s works of Annie Sprinkle, Karen Finley, Ann Magnuson, Sandra Bernhard, and others. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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