Jones, Amelia,

Body art/performing the subject / Amelia Jones. - xiv, 349 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-329) and index.

Postmodernism, subjectivity, and body art : a trajectory -- The "Pollockian performative" and the revision of the modernist subject -- The body in action : Vito Acconci and the "coherent" male artistic subject -- The rhetoric of the pose : Hannah Wilke and the radical narcissism of feminist body art -- Dispersed subjects and the demise of the "individual" : 1990s bodies in/as art.

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Body art
Performance art

N6494.B63 / J66 1998

700.9045