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Erotic Ambiguities – The Female Nude in Art

Artist/Author: Helen McDonald | Reference: P2498 | ISBN: 0415170990 | Type: Publication

A study of how contemporary women artists have reconceptualised the figure of the female nude.

Where is Ana Mendieta? Identity, Performativity, and Exile

Artist/Author: Jane Blocker | Reference: P2124 | ISBN: 978-0-8223-2324-2 | Type: Publication

Taken from banners carried in a 1992 protest outside the Guggenheim Museum, the title phrase 'Where is Ana Mendieta?' evokes not only the suspicious and tragic circumstances surrounding her death but also the conspicuous absence of women artists from high-profile exhibitions. Drawing on the work of such theorists as Judith Butler, Joseph Roach, Edward Said, and Homi Bhabha, Jane Blocker discusses the power of Mendieta's earth-and-body art to alter, unsettle, and broaden terms of identity itself.

Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject, A Reader

Editor: Fabio Cleto | Reference: P1751 | ISBN: 0-472-06722-2 | Type: Publication

Addresses the multi-layered issue of camp, whose inexhaustible breadth of reference and theoretical relevance to the issues taken up by academic research in recent years have made it one of the most salient and challenging issues on the contemporary critical stage.

On Performance and Performativity

Artist/Author: Catherine Elwes | Reference: A0202 | Type: Article

In what ways does the experience of live art counter the ideological readings of place, context and significantly, gendered codification?

Found in miscellaneous article folder #5
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)

Toward a New Performativity and Processuality

Artist/Author: Marina Grzinic | Reference: A0058 | Type: Article

Making a Scene

Editor: Henry Rogers and David Burrows | Reference: P0238 | ISBN: 9781873352977 | Type: Publication

Drawn from papers and discussions first heard at one day conference held at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England, 5 June 1999.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

 

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