Explicit Body in Performance

The Explicit Body in Performanceinterrogates the avant-garde precedents and theoretical terrain that combined to produce feminist performance art. Among the many artists discussed are * Carolle Schneeman * Annie Sprinkl * Karen Finle * Robbie McCaule * Ana Mendiet * Ann Magnuso * Sandra Bernhar * Spiderwoma Rebecca Schneider tackles topics ranging across the 'post-porn modernist movement', New Right censorship, commodity fetishism, perspectival vision, and primitivism. Employing diverse critical theories from Benjamin to Lacan to postcolonial and queer theory, Schneider analyses artistic and pop cultural depictions of the explicit body in late commodity capitalismThe Explicit Body in Performanceis complemented by extensive photographic illustrations and artistic productions of postmodern feminist practitioners. The book is a fascinating exploration of how these artists have wrestled with the representational structures of desire.