So Much Wasted: Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance

by Patrick Anderson

Book Overview

In So Much Wasted , Patrick Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison. Homing in on those who starve themselves for various reasons and the cultural and political contexts in which they do so, he examines the diagnostic history of anorexia nervosa, fasts staged by artists including Ana Mendieta and Marina Abramovic, and a hunger...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822348284
• ISBN13: 9780822348283
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 9.1"