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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Lara Shalson, Lara (King's College London) Shalson, Lara (King''s College London) Shalson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781108445160
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44516-0
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; 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