Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance- Unlimited Action The Performance of Extremity in the 1970s

Name: Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance- Unlimited Action
Author: Dominic Johnson

Auteur: Dominic Johnson

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Dominic Johnson

Engels
Hardcover
9780719091605
28 december 2018
232 pagina's

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Extremity might suggest violence, pornography, criminality, misanthropy, danger, recklessness, eccentricity or obscurantism. How has art exceeded its own example through performance art? How have artists used performance to question and overextend the limits of form in the 1970s? And with what effects?

Unlimited action concerns the limits imposed upon art and life, and the means by which they were exceeded or challenged by performance art in the 1970s. Its author argues that through a series of performance actions, performance art reshaped aesthetics and the practice of art by way of performances that seem gratuitous, odd, illegible or unwarranted; which concede too much pain or pleasure, require too little skill, or disclose a surfeit of sex, infamy, cruelty or crime.

Dominic Johnson examines the ‘performance of extremity’ as an errant sequence of practices at the limits of histories of performance and art, through game-changing performances by Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Genesis P-Orridge, Anne Bean, the Kipper Kids and Stephen Cripps. Through close encounters with these six artists and others, Johnson articulates a counterhistory of actions in a new narrative of performance art in the 1970s, to rethink and rediscover the history of contemporary art and performance.

Unlimited action concerns the limits imposed upon art and life, and the means by which artists have exposed, refused, or otherwise reshaped the horizon of aesthetics and of the practice of art, by way of performance art. It examines the ‘performance of extremity’ as practices at the limits of the histories of performance and art, in performance art’s most fertile and prescient decade, the 1970s. Dominic Johnson recounts and analyses game-changing performance events by six artists: Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Genesis P-Orridge, Anne Bean, the Kipper Kids, and Stephen Cripps. Through close encounters with these six artists and their works, and a broader contextual milieu of artists and works, Johnson articulates a counter-history of actions in a new narrative of performance art in the 1970s, to rethink and rediscover the history of contemporary art and performance.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 28 december 2018
Aantal pagina's: 232
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Hoofdauteur: Dominic Johnson
Hoofduitgeverij: Manchester University Press

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Product breedte: 156 mm
Product hoogte: 14 mm
Product lengte: 234 mm
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Verpakking hoogte: 14 mm
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Performance art

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Taal: Engels
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
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