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Hunger artists or starvation artists were performers, common in Europe and America in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, who starved themselves for extended periods of time, for the amusement of paying audiences. The phenomenon first appeared in the 17th century and saw its heyday in the 1880s. Hunger artists were almost always male, traveled from city to city and performed widely advertised fasts of up to 40 days. Several hunger artists were found to have cheated during their performances.
The phenomenon has been relayed to modern audiences through Franz Kafka's 1922 short story "A Hunger Artist", contained in the collection of the same name.
Hunger artists should be distinguished from two other phenomena of the time: "Fasting Women" such as Martha Taylor and Ann Moore who refused to eat while staying home, usually explained as some kind of miracle and later exposed as fraud; and "Living Skeletons", people of exceptionally low body weight performing in freak shows. Sigal Gooldin sees hunger artists as "a modern spectacular version of the disciplined self" that can be interpreted in Foucauldian terms in the context of "the modern governmentality of ‘biopower’".




References






Further reading


Peter Payer, Hungerkünstler in Wien. Eine verschwundene Attraktion, Verlag Sonderzahl, Wien 2002. (in German)




External links


Ruben De Somer: Fasting Wonders: The Hunger Artist From the 17th Through 20th Century
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Hunger Artist may refer to:

Hunger artists, performance artists popular in the 1880s
"A Hunger Artist", a 1922 short story by Franz Kafka
A Hunger Artist (short story collection), a 1924 collection of short stories by Franz Kafka
The Hunger Artist (play), a 1987 Richard Greenberg play
"The Hunger Artist" (CSI episode), a 2002 episode of CSI




See also


"The Hunger Art", a 2008 opera based on Kafka's story
Hunger Artists Theatre Company, a California alternative theater group

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