So Much Wasted: Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance

(Part of the Perverse Modernities Series)

by Patrick Anderson

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In So Much Wasted , Patrick Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison. Homing in on those who starve themselves for various reasons and the cultural and political contexts in which they do so, he examines the diagnostic history of anorexia nervosa, fasts staged by artists including Ana Mendieta and Marina Abramovic, and a hunger...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822348284

ISBN13:9780822348283

Release Date:October 2010

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.7" x 9.1"

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Arts, Music & Photography Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Performing Arts

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