The Explicit Body In Performance

What happens when a body is presented as a stage and dramas unfold across itis it Performance Art or pornography? The Explicit Body examines thecontroversial an... » 

What happens when a body is presented as a stage and dramas unfold across itis it Performance Art or pornography? The Explicit Body examines thecontroversial and often shocking issues which surround the use of the femalebody in performance art.Since the early 1960s women in performance art have worked to liberate thefemale body from the confines of patriarchal delimitation. By the late 1980sand early 1990s the clash of the rubrics porn and art manipulated byfemale artists worked to complicate the already embattled debates about theterms of that liberation. Schneider tackles topics which include the postpornmodernist movement censorship by the New Right primitivism commodityfetishism and the link between the modern prostitute and the postmodernperformance artist. Among the many artists discussed are Karen FinleySpiderwoman Theatre Carolee Scheemann and Annie Sprinkle. Theoreticallysophisticated trenchantly argued and elegantly written The Explicit Bodywill be illuminating reading for students and teachers of performance studieswomens studies and cultural studies as well as practitioners of performanceart. «