| Description |
1 online resource (118 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Minding the Matter of Representation: Staging the Body (Politic); On Taking the Blind in Hand; The Mutant Woman: The Use and Abuse of the Female Body in Performance Art; Censoring the Body: Whores, Goddesses and Annie Sprinkle; Abject Identities and Fluid Performances: Theorizing the Leaking Body; Every time You Go Away ... You Take a Piece of Me With You; ""The Girl Who Lost Her Voice""; Notes on Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Lively yet intriguing, The Body in Performance is a varied collection of essays about this much-discussed area. Posing the question ""Why this current preoccupation with the performed body?"" the collection of specially commissioned essays from both academics and practitioners - in some cases one and the same person - considers such cutting edge topics as the abject body and performance, censorship and live art, the presentation of violence on stage, carnal art, and the vexed issue of mimesis in the theatre. Drawing variously on the work of Franko B., Orlan, Annie Sprinkle, Karen |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Experimental theater.
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Body art.
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Performance art.
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Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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body arts (discipline)
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body art (visual works, performance)
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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Body art
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Drama
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Experimental theater
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Performance art
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134431786 |
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1134431783 |
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