What the Body Cost: Desire, History, and Performance

by Jane Blocker

Reexamines rebelliousness and desire in the history of performance art

Because performance is by its very nature ephemeral, it elicits a desire for what is lost more than any other form of art making. But what is the nature of that desire, and on what models has it been structured? How has it affected the ways in which the history of performance art gets told?

In What the Body Cost, Jane Blocker revisits...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816643199
• ISBN13: 9780816643196
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.1" x 10.0"