Contract with the Skin: Masochism, Performance Art, and the 1970s

by Kathy O'Dell

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816628874
• ISBN13: 9780816628872
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 10.0"