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?

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

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

Résumé

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? -- .

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Dominic Johnson, Domonic Johnson, Johnson Dominic
• Edition: Manchester University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780719091605
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9160-5
• Pages: 232
• Thèmes: Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance; Theatre Theory Practice Perfor; Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance; Theatre Theory Practice Perfor; Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Autres; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Performance, Performance Art, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980