Reason and remainders : Kantian performativity in the history of art / Karen Lang -- Performing modernity : the art of art history / Donald Preziosi -- Art history/art criticism : performing meaning / Amelia Jones -- Cross-cultural reiterations : Demetra Vaka Brown and the performance of racialized female beauty / Reina Lewis -- Race, ritual, and responsibility : performativity and the southern lynching / Michael Hatt -- Shading meaning / Jennifer Devere Brody -- Greatest homosexual? Camp pleasure and the performative body of Larry Rivers / Gavin Butt -- Politics of feminist spectatorship and the disruptive body : de Kooning's Woman I reconsidered / Fionna Barber -- 'Catholic tastes' : hurting and healing the body in Viennese Actionism in the 1960s / Philip Ursprung -- Contests for meaning in body politics and feminist conceptual art : revisioning the 1970s through the work of Eleanor Antin / Lisa Bloom -- Dismembership : Jasper Johns and the body politic / Jonathan Katz -- Performing clits and other lesbian tricks : speculations on an aesthetics of lack / B.J. Wray -- Renaming Untitled flesh : marking the politics of marginality / Meiling Cheng -- Andy Warhol : performances of Death in America / Peggy Phelan -- STUFF : a performance / Nao Bustamante and Coco Fusco -- Following Acconci/targeting vision / Christine Poggi -- Performing vision in the theatre of the gaze : the work of Douglas Gordon / Joanna Lowry -- What sense do the senses make? Aspects of corporeality in the works of Miriam Cahn and Maureen Connor / Barbara U. Schmidt.
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Exploring performativity in art theory and practice, this volume examines ways of rethinking processess in visual culture. Since the 1960s, visual art practices have taken contemporary art outside the museum and gallery, exploding the normal boundaries.