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The Triumph of Anti-Art: Conceptual and Performance Art in the Formation of Post-Modernism
Guides the reader through a thicket of seemingly arcane meanings of nonrepresentational art forms, and brings clarity to the intentions and agendas of these artists, as well as to their real world contexts.
Frakcija: Goat Island special edition
Special edition of performing arts magazine Frakcija, covering the Goat Island project When Will September Roses Bloom? Last Night was Only a Comedy.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Enmeshed bodies, impossible touch: the object-oriented world of Pina Bausch’s Café Müller
The addresses the nonhuman bodies of Café Müller and claim that Bausch’s piece resonates with the work of contemporary philosopher Graham Harman, in that it tries to go beyond human exceptionalism to present a world where all bodies, regardless of their perceived nature, are simultaneously tightly enmeshed together and inaccessible to one another.
9.5 Theses on Art and Class : And Other Writings
Seeks to show how a clear understanding of class makes sense of what is at stake in a broad number of contemporary art’s most persistent debates, from definitions of political art, to the troubled status of “outsider” and street art, to the question of how we maintain faith in art itself in a dysfunctional world.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and class and cultural privilege. (P3152)
The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson
This first historical and critical analysis of the artist’s work by prominent scholars and the artist herself brings nearly forty years of creative output into focus by tracking the development of her constant themes through each medium. The essays range from formal to theoretical to psychological to poetical analyses. Includes a DVD.
Performativity and Performance
From the age of Aristotle to the age of AIDS, writers, thinkers, performers and activists have wresteled with what “performance” is all about. At the same moment, “performativity”–a new concept in language theory–has become a ubiquitous term in literary studies. This volume grapples with the nature of these two key terms whose traces can be found everywhere: in the theatre, in the streets, in philosophy, in questions of race and gender, and in the sentences we speak.
Revolutionary Time and the Avant Garde
The first book of its kind to look at the legacy of the avant-garde in relation to the deepening crisis of capitalist non-reproduction.
Greenwich Village 1963: Avant-Garde Performance and the Effervescent Body
This book draws a vibrant portrait of the artists and performers who gave the 1963 Village its exhilarating force, the avant-garde whose interweaving of public and private life, work and play, art and ordinary experience, began a wholesale reworking of the social and cultural fabric of America.
Acts and Apparitions: Discourses on the Real in Performance Practice and Theory, 1990-2010
Examines how contemporary performance practices have been driven by questions of The Real and the consequent political implications of the concept’s disintigrating authority.
Judson Dance Theatre: Performative Traces
A look at the radical, experimental dance presented during the early 1960s at Judson Memorial Church in downtown Manhattan.
