Snow Philippa - Which As You Know Means Violence On Self - Injury As Art And Entertainment - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A blending of art and pop cultural criticism about people who injure themselves for our entertainment or enlightenment. A few weeks before he died Hunter S. Thompson left an answerphone message for Jackass Johnny Knoxville: " I might be coming to Baton Rouge. and if I do I will call you because I will be looking to have some fun which as you know usually means violence." Fun does not of course mean violence for most people. Those who choose to make a hobby a career or an art practice out of injury are wired differently subject to unusual motivations and quite often powered by an ardent death - drive. In Which as You Know Means Violence writer and art critic Philippa Snow analyses the subject of pain injury and sadomasochism in performance from the more rarefied context of contemporary art to the more lowbrow realm of pranksters stuntmen and stuntwomen and uncategorisable danger - loving You Tube freaks. In a world where violence of the market of climate change of capitalism is part of our everyday lives Which as You Know Means Violence focuses on those who enact violence on themselves for art or entertainment and analyses the role that violence plays in twenty - first century culture.
Title: Which As You Know Means Violence On Self - Injury As Art And Entertainment
Author(s): Snow Philippa
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Barcode: 9781913462468
Pages: 128 Pages
Publication Date: 9/13/2022
Category: Popular Culture