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Overview
"With great originality and scholarship, Amelia Jones maps out an extraordinary history of body art over the last three decades and embeds it in the theoretical terrain of postmoderism. The result is a wonderful and permissive space in which the viewer...can wander"...-Moira Roth, Trefethen professor of art history, Mills College.Synopsis
"With great originality and scholarship, Amelia Jones maps out an extraordinary history of body art over the last three decades and embeds it in the theoretical terrain of postmoderism. The result is a wonderful and permissive space in which the viewer...can wander"...-Moira Roth, Trefethen professor of art history, Mills College.
Art Journal - Henry Sayre
...[F]or her, the single most powerful effect of performance art [is] the interaction of spectator and spectacle, reception and production, to the point of the dissolution of any meaningful distinction between them....If art history traditionally has been a male-dominated enterprise...Jones [renegotiates] its gender.
Editorials
Henry Sayre
...[F]or her, the single most powerful effect of performance art [is] the interaction of spectator and spectacle, reception and production, to the point of the dissolution of any meaningful distinction between them....If art history traditionally has been a male-dominated enterprise...Jones [renegotiates] its gender.—Art Journal
Henry Sayre
...[F]or her, the single most powerful effect of performance art [is] the interaction of spectator and spectacle, reception and production, to the point of the dissolution of any meaningful distinction between them....If art history traditionally has been a male-dominated enterprise...Jones [renegotiates] its gender.— Art Journal