The Inflicted Self

Colour Me Dead - Chapter 16

How the artist maims, marks, scarifies, mutilates the body

(i) Body Talk

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(ii) Body Scream

7. 8. 9.

10. 11. 12.

13. 14.

(iii) Body Statement

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17. 18. 19.

20. 21.

1. Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Character Heads (1778-1783)
2. Gustave Courbet’s Self Portrait (The Desperate Man) (1843-45)
3. Adrien Tournachon’s Fright (1855-56)
4. Fred Holland Day’s The Last Seven Words (1898)
5. Adolfo Wildt’s Portrait of Pain - Self Portrait (1909)
6. Basil Wolverton’s Beautiful Girl Of The Month (1954)

7. Mary Barnes’ Untitled Finger Painting (1967)
8. Anita Steckel’s Pierced (1970)
9. Jeffrey Silverthorne’s Woman Who Died in Her Sleep (1972-1973)
10. Valie Export’s Hyperbulie (1973)
11. Gina Pane’s Death Control (1975)
12. Chris Burden’s Trans-Fixed (1974)
13. Stelarc’s Suspensions (1977-1985)
14. Bob Flanagan’s Nailed (1989)

15. Marina Abramovic’s Art Must Be Beautiful (1975)
16. Angelyne’s Billboards (1984-1994)
17. Phoebe Gloeckner’s Self Portrait with Pemphigus Vulgaris (1987)
18. Orlan’s Omniprésence (1993)
19. Paul McCarthy’s Painter (1995)
20. Irwin Olaf’s Royal Blood (2000)
21. Arthur Elsenaar’s Face-Shift (2005)