Contract with the Skin : Masochism, Performance Art, and the 1970s.
Title:
Contract with the Skin : Masochism, Performance Art, and the 1970s.
Author:
O'Dell, Kathy.
ISBN:
9780816687794
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (176 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- 1 HE GOT SHOT -- 2 HIS MOUTH/HER SKIN -- 3 MY MIRROR -- 4 THEIR BEDS -- 5 HOME AGAIN -- 6 CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
Focusing on 1970s performance artists Vito Acconci, Chris Burden, Gina Pane, and collaborators Marina Abramovi`c[accent over c]/Ulay as well as those with similar sensibilities from the late 1980s onward (Bob Flanagan, David Wojnarowicz, Simon Leung, Catherine Opie, Ron Athey, Lutz Bacher, and Robby Garfinkel), O'Dell provides photographic documentation of performances and quotations from interviews with many of the artists. Throughout, O'Dell asks what we can do about the institutionalized forms of masochism for which these performances are metaphors.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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