Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury - Couverture souple

Weir, Lucy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 103202710X ISBN 13 : 9781032027104

Editeur : Routledge, 2026

Synopsis

This book is an ambitious and expansive examination of the visual language of self-injury in performance art from the 1960s to the present.

Inspired by the gendered nature of discussion around self-harm, the book challenges established readings of risk-taking and self-injury in global performance practice. The interdisciplinary methodology draws from art history and sociology to provide a new critical analysis of the relationship between masculinity and self-inflicted injury. Based upon interviews with a range of artists around the world, it offers an innovative understanding of the diverse meanings behind self-injury in performance, and delves into the gendered coding of self-harming bodies. Individual chapters examine the work of Ron Athey, Günter Brus, Wafaa Bilal, Franko B, André Stitt, Pyotr Pavlensky, and Yang Zhichao, offering a new perspective on the forms and functions of self-injury in performance art.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, performance studies, gender studies, and cultural studies.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lucy Weir is Chancellor’s Fellow in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. She is the author of Pina Bausch’s Dance Theatre (2018), and co-editor of Performance in a Pandemic (Routledge, 2021).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 103202710X
• ISBN 13: 9781032027104
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 194
• Coordonnées du fabricant: BOOKS etc..; cs@booksetc.co.uk; ; BOOKS etc.; Aldershot; Royaume-Uni
• Personne responsable: non disponible