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Performance in contemporary art

Title
Performance in contemporary art / Catherine Wood.
Author
Wood, Catherine, 1973-
Publication
  • London : Tate Publishing, a division of Tate Enterprises Ltd., 2018.
  • New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by Abrams
  • ©2018

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Description
240 pages : illustrations (some colour); 27 cm
Summary
"In this important new survey, Catherine Wood proposes performance not as a genre of art separate from object-making but as an attitude that has infiltrated the entire terrain of contemporary art. From the musical-theatricals of Marvin-Gaye Chetwynd to the public encounters created by Tino Seghal and the social activism of Tania Bruguera, a hugely divergent set of practices has emerged in the past twenty to thirty years which embrace the worlds of sculpture and painting, spectacle and protest. Examining in turn individual, social and object-based approaches in the field, Wood first examines the influential performance art of the 1960s to 1980s: the body art of the Viennese actionists; the raw performances of Yoko Ono and Chris Burden; and the experiments of the Japanese Gutai group among others. She then explores how these sources have been revisited, reformed or rejected by contemporary artists in the twenty-first century. This impressive book encompasses international artists who fall outside the traditional European and North American focus, giving the reader the broadest and most up-to-date insight into the subject yet published."--Amazon.com.
Subject
  • 1900-2099
  • Performance art > 20th century
  • Performance art > 21st century
  • Performance artists > 20th century
  • Performance artists > 21st century
  • Artists and theater > History > 20th century
  • Artists and theater > History > 21st century
  • Arts, Modern > 20th century
  • Arts, Modern > 21st century
  • Artists and theater
  • Arts, Modern
  • Performance art
  • Performance artists
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-234) and index.
Call Number
*MGRL 19-2495
ISBN
  • 9781849763110
  • 1849763119
OCLC
1060181429
Author
Wood, Catherine, 1973- author.
Title
Performance in contemporary art / Catherine Wood.
Publisher
London : Tate Publishing, a division of Tate Enterprises Ltd., 2018.
Distributor
New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by Abrams
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-234) and index.
Local Note
ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT.
Chronological Term
1900-2099
Research Call Number
*MGRL 19-2495
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