Body as artifact: a value-theoretical reading of Ana Mendieta and Cassils

Savannah  Whaley

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Body as artifact: a value-theoretical reading of Ana Mendieta and Cassils

Savannah Whaley^*

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Reading Ana Mendieta’s Untitled: Glass on Body Imprints (1972), Cassils’s Becoming an Image (2012–present), and Cassils’s Pressed (2018) through Marxian “value theory” makes the gendered body visible as an “artifact”: a result rather than a precondition of the capitalist mode of production. In this reading, Mendieta and Cassils convey a “felt sense” of the relationship between the particularities of sensory embodied experience and the capitalist totality, where gender is produced and maintained through indirect compulsions and direct forms of violence.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	25-41
Number of pages	17
Journal	TDR: The Drama Review
Volume	67
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S1054204323000400
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2023

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