Performing Endurance - Art and Politics Since 1960

Offers a formal account and theory of endurance as a practice in performance art and protest. Discusses influential performances by Marina Abramovic, Chris Burden, Tehching Hsieh, Yoko Ono, and others, as well as 1960s lunch counter sit-ins and twenty-first-century protest camps. Essential reading in performance theory, art history, and political activism.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Enduring objecthood; 2. Enduring protests; 3. Enduring life; 4. Enduring documents; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Lara Shalson is Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at King's College London. She is the author of Theatre & Protest (2017).

Zusammenfassung

Offers a formal account and theory of endurance as a practice in performance art and protest. Discusses influential performances by Marina Abramovic, Chris Burden, Tehching Hsieh, Yoko Ono, and others, as well as 1960s lunch counter sit-ins and twenty-first-century protest camps. Essential reading in performance theory, art history, and political activism.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Lara Shalson, Lara (King's College London) Shalson, Lara (King''s College London) Shalson
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781108445160
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44516-0
• Seiten: 220
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Allgemeines, Lexika; Popular Culture, Theory of art, Political Ideologies, DRAMA / General, Theatre Studies, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Gender studies, gender groups, Performance Art, Political ideologies and movements