Contract With The Skin
Masochism, Performance Art, and the 1970s
Kathy O'Dell(Author)
University of Minnesota Press
Published on 1. May 1998
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-0-8166-2886-5 (ISBN)
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Description
Kathy O'Dell argues that the growth of masochistic performance during the 1970s must be seen in the context of society's response to the Vietnam War and contemporaneous changes in theories of contract. She contends that the dynamic that exists between audience and performer during these masochistic acts relates to the tension resulting from ruptures in the social contract. Indeed, as the war in Vietnam waned, so did masochistic performance, only to reemerge in the 1980s in relation to the "war on AIDS" and the censorious "culture wars".
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-2886-5 (9780816628865)
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