Body art : performing the subject / Amelia Jones.

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [1998], ©1998.

xiv, 349 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Postmodernism, subjectivity, and body art : a trajectory -- The "Pollockian performative" and the revision of the modernist subject -- The body in action : Vito Acconci and the "coherent" male artistic subject -- The rhetoric of the pose : Hannah Wilke and the radical narcissism of feminist body art -- Dispersed subjects and the demise of the "individual" : 1990s bodies in/as art.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-329) and index.