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Contract With The Skin: Masochism, Performance Art, and the 1970s
Kathy O´dell
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Description for Contract With The Skin: Masochism, Performance Art, and the 1970s
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 34 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; AFKP; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 256 x 175 x 9. Weight in Grams: 308.
Places masochistic performance within a social and historical context.
Having yourself shot. Putting out fires with your bare hands and feet. Biting your own body and photographing the marks. Sewing your own mouth shut. These seemingly aberrant acts were committed by performance artists during the 1970s. Why would anyone do these things? What do these kinds of masochistic performances tell us about the social and historical context in which they occurred? Fascinating and accessibly written, Contract with the Skin addresses such questions through a reconsideration of these acts in relation to psychoanalytic and legal concepts of masochism.
O’Dell argues that the ... Read moreFocusing on 1970s performance artists Vito Acconci, Chris Burden, Gina Pane, and collaborators Marina Abramovi´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. Contract with the Skin is a provocative guide to this little-studied area, and offers new ways of thinking about performance art and artistic production. Show LessProduct Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Weight
307g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816628872
SKU
V9780816628872
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About Kathy O´dell
Kathy O’Dell is assistant professor of art history and theory at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
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