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Unmarked: The Politics of Performance

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1994

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Phelan’s critical anthology examines performance through the lenses of corporeality, racial and sexual difference, reproductive rights, and AIDS. The book analyzes photography, film, theatre, political protest, and performance art using psychoanalytic and feminist theories, focusing on artists such as Mapplethorpe, Schor, Sherman, Rainer, Livingston, and Stoppard, and provides a name and theme index. The bibliography lists 337 references.

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Phelan's critical analysis of this anthology of performance foregrounds issues of corporeality, racial and sexual difference, reproductive rights and AIDS. Cultural practices of photography, film, theatre, political protest and performance art are discussed in relation to pshycoanalytic and feminist theories. Emphasis is placed on the works of Mapplethorpe, Schor, Sherman, Rainer, Livingston and Stoppard. Includes name and theme index. 337 bibl. ref.