Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1783200359 ISBN 13: 9781783200351

Casa editrice: Intellect L & D E F A E, 2013

Riassunto

Ron Athey is an iconic figure in the development of contemporary art and performance. In his frequently bloody portrayals of life, death, crisis, and fortitude in the time of AIDS, Athey calls into question the limits of artistic practice. These limits enable Athey to explore in his work key themes including gender, sexuality, S&M and radical sex, queer activism, post-punk and industrial culture, tattooing and body modification, ritual, and religion. Now in a second edition,Pleading in the Blood foregrounds the prescience of Athey’s work, exploring how his visceral practice foresaw and precipitated the central place afforded sexuality, identity, and the body in art and critical theory in the late twentieth century.

Pleading in the Blood offers a remarkable and enduring contribution to literatures on performance and contemporary art. . . . The potency of myth in Ron Athey’s work is the problem tackled by this formidable new book.”Contemporary Theatre Review

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Dominic Johnson is a senior lecturer in the Department of Drama at Queen Mary University of London and the author ofGlorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture.

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Su questa edizione

• Editore: Intellect L & D E F A E
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1783200359
• ISBN 13: 9781783200351
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 248
• Redattore: Johnson Dominic