Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.