List of plates

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Amelia Jones

Andrew Stephenson

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

The greatest homosexual? Camp pleasure and the performative body of Larry Rivers

Gavin Butt

The 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

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

Author/artist index

Subject index