Dr Alyce Mahon (Department of History of Art) is specialised in twentieth century art and critical theory. In her teaching and research Dr Mahon specialises on the dynamic between the body and the body politic in modern and contemporary art, photography, film and exhibition practice from dada and Surrealism to the Sixties counter-culture, feminist, and performance art. She is currently researching a book length project on the avant-garde 'cult' of the Marquis de Sade and his aesthetic of transgression, titled The Sadean Imagination: Image, Text and Terror.
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