The body east: the proliferation of performance and body art in Asia, often with an implicit political charge, was chronicled in a recent exhibition at the Queens Museum. (Import/Export).

Art in America | April 1, 2002| | Copyright

"Your body is a battleground," Barbara Kruger informed us in one of her most reproduced art works. Kruger was referring to the gender wars that roiled U.S. political discourse in the 1980s, but the history of performance and body art suggests that the statement has much wider ramifications. The recent art history of Europe and America is full of clashes between police and individuals wielding their often naked bodies as art works. Among the most memorable of these incidents was Charlotte Moorman's arrest in 1967 for playing the cello in the nude during a performance with Nam ...

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