| Description |
xxii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Leaving terra firma -- In extremis -- Roped: a saga of art in everyday life: Linda Montano, Tehching Hsieh -- Before and after science: Stelarc -- This is only a test: Chris Burden -- A great wall: Marina Abramovic, Ulay -- Underground -- The hot bottom: art and artifice in the East Village -- Country clubbing: 8BC's Pig Phest -- To thine own self be true: Ethyl Eichelberger -- Sex gods, ekstatic women: John Sex, Nina Hagen, Dancenoise -- The revolution that won't be televised: Michael Smith, Karen Finley, Harry Kipper, et al. -- R.I.P. 8BC: the end of the never-ending talent show -- Art crimes: Cinema of Transgression, outlaw parties, et al. -- Loisaida talking pictures: Ela Troyano -- The queer frontier: Holly Hughes, Carmelita Tropicana -- Disenchanted evening: Donna Henes -- Big bang theory: Poppo Shiraishi -- Bad company at the love club: Karen Finley, Carlo McCormick -- Help thou mine unbelief: the Church of the Little Green Man -- Nightclubbing: the Tompkins Square riot -- The triumph of Neoism: the Millionth Apartment Festival -- Don't make me over: slaves of New York, Darius James -- Just revolting: Missing Foundation -- Regenerate art -- Unspeakable practices, unnatural acts: the taboo art of Karen Finley -- The lady is a dick: the dyke noir theater of Holly Hughes -- Body beautiful: Frank Moore -- Lydia Lunch faces the void -- Learning to love the monster: Jon Moritsugu, Johanna Went -- The Kipper Kids in middle age -- Life is a killer: Joe Coleman -- Is that you?: Fiona Templeton -- Deconstructing Dixie: Laurie Carlos, Jessica Hagedorn, Robbie McCauley -- A crash of symbols: Sherman Fleming, Kristine Stiles -- Two birds with one stone: Dancenoise -- A public cervix announcement: Annie Sprinkle, the Smut Fest -- Revisions of excess: the V-girls, Blue Man Group -- An artist retreats from rage: Rafael Montañez Ortiz -- Beauties and beasts: Salley May, Ms. Make-Believe, David Lynch -- Radical shriek: Diamanda Galas -- Simulacra stops here: the Border Arts Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo -- Rediscovering America: Guillermo Gómez-Peña -- Talk show: Robbie McCauley, Jeannie Hutchins -- A cinema against the vérités: Shu Lea Cheang -- Unplugged -- Splendour in the crass: the Royal (Performance Art) Couple -- Realms of the unreal: John Jesurun, John Kelly, No Entiendes -- Nam June Paik's global groove -- Am I a camera?: John Jesurun -- Am I living in a box?: Ann Magnuson -- I am not a bimbo: Jimmy Swaggart, the Carnival of Sleaze -- Are you now or have you ever been?: Jean Baudrillard, Patty Hearst, Dan Quayle -- The impact addict's last crash: David Leslie -- Fin-de-millennium: Michael Jackson, G.G. Allin -- War on art -- The sexual politics of censorship: targeted artists and the Wrathful Dads -- Trying times: Wojnarowicz meets Wildmom -- With Mapplethorpe in Cincinnati: "the perfect moment" on trial -- The adventures of Andres Serrano in pursuit of the white supremacists -- Portrait in life and death -- Portrait of an artist in the age of AIDS: David Wojnarowicz -- "I am glass, clear empty glass" -- Afterimages: the making of Postcards from America -- Epilogue -- The Bohemian diaspora |
| Analysis |
Arts |
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United States |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Abramović, Marina.
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Mapplethorpe, Robert.
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Serrano, Andres, 1950-
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Stelarc, 1946-
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Ulay, 1943-
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Arts, American -- 20th century.
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Performance art -- United States.
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| LC no. |
93008182 |
| ISBN |
0819552674 |
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0819562696 (paperback) |
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