Johnson Unlimited action

The performance of extremity in the 1970s
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3550-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Reihe: Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance

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?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, Dominic

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Johnson Dominic:
Dominic Johnson is a lecturer in the Department of Drama at Queen Mary University of LondonDominic Johnsonis a Reader in Performance and Visual Culture in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London