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Histories and Practices of Live Art

English · Hardback

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In this dynamic collection a team of experts map the development of Live Art culturally, thematically and historically. Supported with examples from around the world, the text engages with a number of key practices, asking what these practices do and how they can be contextualised and understood.>

List of contents










Introduction: Writing Histories and Practices of Live Art; D.Heddon
Developing Live Art; J.Klein
The Time of Live Art; B.Hoffman
Art, Meeting and Encounter: The Art of Action in Great Britain; R.Hunter & J.B.Hunter
Site: Between Ground and Groundlessness; S.Hodge & C.Turner
Intimacy and Risk in Live Art; D.Johnson
All Together Now: Performance and Collaboration; C.Macdonald
The Politics of Live Art; D.Heddon
Bibliography
Index.


About the author










DEIRDRE HEDDON is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. She has published extensively in the field of contemporary performance practice and is the co-editor, with Jennie Klein and Nikki Milican, of The National Review of Live Art: 1979-2010, a personal history (New Moves International, 2010). Her monograph, Autobiography and Performance was published in 2008, and Devising Performance: A Critical History in 2005 (both Palgrave).

JENNIE KLEIN is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at Ohio University, USA. She is the editor of Letters from Linda M. Montano (Routledge, 2005), the co-curator (Rebecca McGrew) of The 21st Century Odyssey Part II: The Work of Barbara T. Smith (2005), and the co-editor (Myrel Chernick) of The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art (Demeter Press, 2011). She is a contributing editor for PAJ, Genders, and Art Papers.


Product details

Authors Deirdr Heddon, Deirdre Heddon, Deirdre Klein Heddon, Jennie Klein
Assisted by Deirdre Heddon (Editor), Jennie Klein (Editor)
Publisher Macmillan
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 07.12.2012
 
EAN 9780230229730
ISBN 978-0-230-22973-0
No. of pages 248
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous

Theater, B, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre and Performance Arts, Theatre and Performance Studies

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