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Blocker (art history, U. of Minnesota) examines performance art works by Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci, Hannah Wilke, Yves Klein, Ana Mendieta, and others, in a challenge to earlier critiques that characterize performance, or body art, solely as a revolutionary art form. She argues that "the acceptance of the body in art came at a price, that the shift from the pure object of high modernism to performance had both liberating and deeply reactionary effects." Drawing on the works of Roland Barthes and Catherine Belsey, queer theory, and feminism, she explores body at the center of the performance, and the psychic, emotional, and social costs to that body. Illustrated with b&w photographs. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
