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Distributed for Liverpool University Press

Edited by Jonathan Harris

Dead History, Live Art?

Spectacle, Subjectivity and Subversion in Visual Culture since the 1960s

256 pages, 45 color plates, 25 halftones  7 x 8-3/4  © 2005
Series: Liverpool University Press - Tate Liverpool Critical Forum

Cloth $90.00

ISBN: 9780853231899   Published February 2008
For sale in North America only

Paper $40.00

ISBN: 9780853234388   Published February 2008
For sale in North America only

Acknowledgements
 
1. Introduction:
Performance, Critiques, Ideology
Contemporary Art and Art History in an Age of Visual Culture
Jonathan Harris
 
2. Namesake: Who's Performing Whom?
Joshua Sofaer
 
3. A Great Technician: Document, Process and Persona in Performance and the Everyday
Richard Layzell
 
4. Vaginal Davis Does Art History
Robert Summers
 
5. Performativity, Cultural-Politics, and the Embodiments of Knowledge: An Interview with Amerlia Jones conducted by Jonathan Harris
 
6. The Fantasy of Privacy: Performance after Minimalism
Frazer Ward
 
7. Deterritorializing Bodies: Body Art and the Colonial World Expositions
Jane Chin Davidson
 
8. 'Do-it-yourself Artworks': A User's Guide
Anna Dezeuze
 
9. Martha Rosler's Fighting Legions: Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975/2003) - Performance and the (Video) Document
August Jordan Davis
 
10. Interaction/Participation: Disembodied Performance in New Media Art
Beryl Graham
 
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