Unlimited Action - The Performance of Extremity in the 1970s

Extremity might suggest violence, pornography, criminality, misanthropy, danger, recklessness, eccentricity or obscurantism. How has art exceeded its own example through performance art? How have artists used performance to question and overextend the limits of form in the 1970s? And with what effects?

List of contents

Introduction: Performance - action - extremity
1 The preferred ordeal
2 A criminal touch
3 The dirtying intention
4 Impossible things
5 The art of sabotage
Conclusion: Reckless people
Index

About the author

Dominic Johnson is a lecturer in the Department of Drama at Queen Mary University of London

Summary

Extremity might suggest violence, pornography, criminality, misanthropy, danger, recklessness, eccentricity or obscurantism. How has art exceeded its own example through performance art? How have artists used performance to question and overextend the limits of form in the 1970s? And with what effects? -- .

Product details

• Authors: Dominic Johnson, Domonic Johnson
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780719091605
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9160-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance; Theatre Theory Practice Perfor; Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance; Theatre Theory Practice Perfor
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous