Richard Kostelanetz: On Innovative Performance(s): Three Decades of Recollections on Alternative Theatre (1994)
Filed under book | Tags: · art criticism, avant-garde, experimental theatre, happening, performance, performance art, theatre
This collection of essays and notes focuses on individual performances and performers, providing a unique critical record of their work and of the movement. Vito Acconci, Lenny Bruce, Jean Dupuy, Karen Finley, Timothy Leary, The Living Theater, Robert Watts, Zaj, a.o.
Publisher McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 1994
ISBN 0899504736, 9780899504735
vi+276 pages
Review: Robert J. Hubbard (Text & Performance Quarterly, 1996).
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Comment (0)Henry M. Sayre: The Object of Performance: The American Avant-Garde since 1970 (1989)
Filed under book | Tags: · art history, avant-garde, dance, feminism, land art, performance, performance art, photography
Looks at the development of American avant-garde art. Considers feminist performance, particularly by Laurie Anderson, Eleanor Antin, and Carolee Schneemann; dance and collaboration as a new form of Gesamtkunstwerk; poets of the vernacular landscape and the postmodern sublime; and the application of Roland Barthes’s theories to Sayre’s own concepts of the relationship between photography and live art (ch 7).
Publisher University of Chicago Press, 1989
ISBN 0226735575, 9780226735573
xvi+308 pages
Reviews: Roger F. Malina (Leonardo, 1992), George J. Leonard (LA Times, 1989).
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Comment (0)Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics (1968)
Filed under book | Tags: · art criticism, art history, art theory, avant-garde, constructivism, cubism, dada, expressionism, fauvism, futurism, neoplasticism, post-impressionism, surrealism, symbolism
“A collection of texts from letters, manifestos, notes and interviews. Sources include, as the title says, artists and critics—some expected, like van Gogh, Gauguin, Apollinaire, Mondrian, Greenberg, just to name a few—and some less so: Trotsky and Hitler, in the section on Art and Politics. The book is a wonderful resource and insight into the way artists think and work.”
Edited by Herschel Browning Chipp
Contributions by Peter Selz and Joshua C. Taylor
Publisher University of California Press, 1968
ISBN 0520014502
xv+664 pages
Reviews: Romare H. Bearden and Carl Holty (Leonardo, 1970), Elizabeth Gilmore Holt (Art Bulletin, 1972).
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