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The object of performance : the American avant-garde since 1970
- Title
- The object of performance : the American avant-garde since 1970 / Henry M. Sayre.
- Author
- Sayre, Henry M., 1948-
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1989]
- ©1989
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JQZ 12-3385 | Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | No restrictions | *R-ART NX504 .S29 1989 | Schwarzman Building - Art Reference Room 300 |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 308 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- Looks at the development of American avant-garde art, including performance art, environmental art, conceptual art, video, and photo-realism.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The object of performance -- The rhetoric of the pose: photography and the portrait as performance -- A new person(a): feminism and the art of the seventies -- Tracing dance: collaboration and the new Gesamtkunstwerk -- Three performances: Laurie Anderson, Eleanor Antin, and Carolee Schneemann -- "So much to tell": narrative and the poetics of the vernacular -- Open space: landscape and the postmodern sublime -- Critical performance: the example of Roland Barthes.
- Call Number
- JQZ 12-3385
- ISBN
- 0226735575
- 9780226735573
- 9780226735580
- 0226735583
- LCCN
- 88027481
- OCLC
- 18442402
- Author
- Sayre, Henry M., 1948-
- Title
- The object of performance : the American avant-garde since 1970 / Henry M. Sayre.
- Publisher
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1989]
- Copyright Date
- ©1989
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Indexed Term
- ArtsUnited States
- Research Call Number
- JQZ 12-3385