| Description |
1 online resource (236 pages) : 118 illustrations |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. When the Body Is the Material -- 1. Hurray for People / Rainer, Yvonne -- 2. Concretions / Schneemann, Carolee -- 3. Reasons to Move / Acconci, Vito -- Coda. Forming the Senses -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Illustration Credits |
| Summary |
" ... Examines the 1960s performance work of three New York artists who adapted modernist approaches to form for the medium of the human body. Finding parallels between the tactility of a drip of paint and a body's reflexive movements, Elise Archias argues convincingly that Yvonne Rainer (b. 1934), Carolee Schneemann (b. 1939), and Vito Acconci (b. 1940) forged a dialogue between modernist aesthetics and their own artistic community's embrace of all things ordinary through work that explored the abstraction born of the body's materiality. Rainer's task-like dances, Schneemann's sensuous appropriations of popular entertainment, and Acconci's behaviorist-inflected tests highlight the body's unintended movements as vital reminders of embodied struggle amid the constraining structures in contemporary culture. Archias also draws compelling comparisons between embodiment as performed in the work of these three artists and in the sit-ins and other nonviolent protests of the era"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 12, 2016) |
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Print version record and online resource (A & AePortal, viewed on July 3, 2019) |
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College Art Association Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism, 2018 |
| Subject |
Rainer, Yvonne, 1934- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Schneemann, Carolee, 1939-2019 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Acconci, Vito, 1940-2017 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Schneemann, Carolee, 1939-2019 fast |
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Rainer, Yvonne, 1934- fast |
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Acconci, Vito, 1940-2017 fast |
| Subject |
Performance art -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
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Performance artists -- United States -- 20th century
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Arts, American -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
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ART -- Performance.
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ART -- Reference.
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Performance artists
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Arts, American
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Performance art
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New York (State) -- New York
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780300220438 |
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030022043X |
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9780300249804 |
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0300249802 |
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