Manon-A Person
A Swiss Pioneer of Female Body and Performance Art
Distributed for Scheidegger and Spiess
Essays by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Amelia Jones, Jörg Heiser, Brigitte Ulmer and Simon Maurer. In cooperation with Helmhaus Zurich and the Swiss Institute (SI), New York
240 pages
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120 color plates, 80 halftones
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7 1/2 x 11
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Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Thomas Kramer and Simon Maurer
Manon: "Eroticism Was My Theme"
--Memories
Jean-Christophe Ammann
It’s a Manon’s World
--Shame and Pathos in Manon’s Performances and Photo-Series
Jörg Heiser
Manon and Masquerade
--Gender as Counter-Transference
Amelia Jones
In the Mirrored Gallery
-The Metamorphoses and Mythologies of Manon
Brigitte Ulmer
The Perfect Man
--The Contemporariness of Manon’s Artistic Strategies
Gianni Jetzer
Work biography
List of works
Authors
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