Cutting Performances: Collage Events, Feminist Artists, and the American Avant-Garde

Contents

Contents chapter one Toward a Feminist Historiography ofAmericanAvant-Garde Performance:Theories and Contexts 1 chapter two Nude Descending Bleecker Street Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Performing Gender in New York Dada 35 chapter three Avant-Garde Performance,CollageAesthetics,and Feminist Historiographies in Gertrude Stein’s The Mother of Us All 67 chapter four Between Material and Matrix Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece and the Unmaking of Collage 93 chapter five Between Dialectics,Decorum,and Collage Sabotaging Schneemann at the Dialectics of Liberation Congress, London 1967 121 chapter six Forget Fame Valerie Solanas, the Simplest Surrealist Act, and the (Re)Assertion of Avant-Garde Priorities 151 Conclusion Collage and Community 175 Notes 183 Index 215 ...