Lacy Leaving Art

Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics, 1974-2007
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9122-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 420 Seiten

A collection of thirty texts written by the internationally renowned conceptual and performance artist Suzanne Lacy between 1974 and 2007.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lacy, Suzanne

Weitere Mitwirkende

Roth, Moira

May, Kerstin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Konzeptkunst, Postmodernismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations ix

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction. Suzanne Lacy: Three Decades of Performing and Writing/Writing and Performing / Moira Roth xvii

Part 1. Learning to Look: The Seventies

Introduction 2

1. Prostitution Notes (1974) 5

2. Falling Apart (1980) 20

3. Body Contract (1974) 30

Photo Essay. Learn Where the Meat Comes From (1976) 43

4. Cinderella in a Dragster (1977) 48

5. The Bag Lady: On Memory (1982) 52

6. The Life and Times of Donaldina Cameron (with Linda Palumbo and Kathleen Chang) (1978) 57

7. In Mourning and In Rage (With Analysis Aforethought) (1978) 64

8. Learning to Look: The Relationship between Art and Popular Culture Images (with Leslie Labowitz) (1970) 72

9. Feminist Artists: Developing a Media Strategy for the Movement (with Leslie Labowitz) (1981) 83

10. Time, Bones, and Art: Anatomy of a Decade (1995) 92

Part 2. Political Performance Art: The Eighties

Introduction 108

11. Broomsticks and Banners: The Winds of Change (1980) 109

12. The Greening of California Performance: Art of Social Change—A Case Study (1982) 114

13. Made for TV: California Performance in Mass Media (1982) 120

14. Battle of New Orleans (1980) 126

15. Beneath the Seams (1982) 137

16. In the Shadows: An Analysis of The Dark Madonna (1990) 144

17. Political Performance Art: A Discussion by Suzanne Lacy and Lucy R. Lippard (1985) 151

Part 3. Debated Territory: The Nineties

Introduction 160

18. The Name of the Game (1991) 161

19. Debated Territory: Toward a Critical Language for Public Art (1994) 172

20. Affinities: Thoughts on an Incomplete History (1994) 185

21. Love, Cancer, Memory: A Few Stories (1996) 194

22. Cancer Notes (with Leslie Becker) (1995) 211

23. What It Takes (with Ann Wettrich) (2002) 222

Part 4. Leaving Art: After 2000

Introduction 236

24. The Skin of Memory/La Piel de la Memoria (with Pilar Riaño-Alcalá) (2006) 237

25. Seeking an American Identity (Working Inward from the Margins) (2003) 250

26. Cop in the Head, Cop in the Street (2006) 267

27. Having It Good: Reflections on Engaged Art and Engaged Buddhism (2005) 284

28. Hard Work in a Working-Class Town (2006) 300

29. Tracing Allan Kaprow (2007) 319

Afterword: In ter ceptions and In tensions—Situating Suzanne Lacy's Practice / Kerstin Mey 327

Appendix. Chronology and Selected Performances and Installations 339

Notes 343

Index 369

Über Autor(innen)

Suzanne Lacy is an internationally known artist whose work includes installations, video, and large-scale performances on social themes and urban issues. She is also chair of the Master in Fine Arts in Public Practice program at Otis College of Art and Design. Lacy edited the collection Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art and has published more than seventy articles on public and performance art.