There's a link uniting performance art, risk, presence and, of course nudity. Not considering the fact that nudity, in various cases, do not attract the issue of sexuality in performance, it is, however, one of the most frequent procedures for it is at the core of any conception of artistic research taking body as a "primary medium" (Semitotics of Culture). I've been considering that one of the hypothesis for the insistence on nutidty in performance is the overall influence of Marcel Duchamp. His "Nude descending the staircases" imposed a certain new notion about nudity in art, proposing it as a continuous movement. One cannot despise de role of this image in post-modern/contemporary art's sensibility... greetings Lucio BR
On 9/19/06, Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Probably not the first book; there are a lot of books on Gk & Roman stuff and I have one on Egyptian sexuality revealed in graffiti etc. But maybe I'm wrong. - Alan blog at http://nikuko.blogspot.com - for URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt - contact [EMAIL PROTECTED], - general directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org Trace at: http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk - search "Alan Sondheim" http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/Members/sondheim
