Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art

This volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within contemporary art.

List of contents

Introduction: Voiceovers
Jennie Hirsh and Isabelle Wallace
1. Voice, Vivification, and Subjectivity: Jasper Johns Ventriloquist
Isabelle Loring Wallace
2. Over My Dead Body: Puppets, Performance, and Paralysis in Cardiff and Miller’s The Marionette Maker
Jennie Hirsh
3. Not All Objects that Look Have Eyes
Courtney McClellan
4. Dislocated Voices: Wael Shawky’s Cabaret Crusades
Kate O’Connor
5. García’s Games (1978-1979): Puppets, Trauma, Immunity
Juan Guerrero-Hernandez
6. Dialectic Silence: Schizophonia in Juan Muñoz’s Ventriloquist Dummy
Cintia Gutiérrez Reyes
7. Tadeusz Kantor’s Dead Dummies
Katie Geha
8. I remember: On Modern Living
Nora Wendl
9. Embolalia
Jane Blocker
10. Re-Siting Marx
Kerr Houston
11. In a Manner of Speaking
Catherine Clover
12. The Lithic Record
Nina Elder and nicholas b. jacobsen

About the author

Jennie Hirsh is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Isabelle Loring Wallace is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Georgia.

Summary

This volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within contemporary art.

Product details

• Authors: Jennie Wallace Hirsh
• Assisted by: Jennie Hirsh (Editor), Isabelle Wallace (Editor), Isabelle Loring Wallace (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032290454
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3229045-4
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Travel > Travel guides; ART / History / General, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Performance, History of art / art & design styles, Theatre Studies, History of Art, Performance Art, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Puppetry, miniature & toy theatre, Puppetry, miniature and toy theatre