| Description |
xvi, 308 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: The Object of Performance -- 1. The Rhetoric of the Pose -- Photography and the Portrait as Performance -- 2. A New Person(a) -- Feminism and the Art of the Seventies -- 3. Tracing Dance -- Collaboration and the New Gesamtkunstwerk -- 4. Three Performances -- Laurie Anderson, Eleanor Antin, and Carolee Schneemann -- 5. "So Much to Tell" -- Narrative and the Poetics of the Vernacular -- 6. Open Space -- Landscape and the Postmodern Sublime -- 7. Critical Performance -- The Example of Roland Barthes -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
Looks at the development of American avant-garde art, including performance art, environmental art, conceptual art, video, and photo-realism |
| Analysis |
Arts |
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United States |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Performance art -- United States.
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| LC no. |
88027481 |
| ISBN |
0226735575 (alk. paper) |
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0226735583 |
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