Contract with the skin : masochism, performance art, and the 1970's / Kathy O'Dell.

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1998]

xiv, 128, 32 pages of unnumubered photographs : illustrations ; 27 cm

"Focusing on 1970s performance artists Vito Acconci, Chris Burden, Gina Pane, and collaborators Marina Abramović/Ulay as well as those with similar sensibilities from the late 1980s onward -- Bob Flanagan, David Wojnarowicz, Simon Leung, Catherine Opie, Ron Athey, Lutz Bacher, and Robby Garfinkel -- O'Dell provides photographic documentation of performances and quotations from interviews with many of the artists. Throughout, O'Dell asks what we can do about the institutionalized forms of masochism for which these performances are metaphors."--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-122) and index.