What The Body Cost: Desire, History, And Performance
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
What The Body Cost: Desire, History, And Performance
By (Author) Jane Blocker
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
22nd July 2004
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Other performing arts
791.01
Physical Properties
Paperback
184
Width 178mm, Height 254mm, Spine 18mm
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 Bio
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.
