Thomas Dreher: Performance Art nach 1945. Aktionstheater und Intermedia (2001) [German]
Filed under book | Tags: · action art, art, art history, body, body art, dance, happening, intermedia, media art, performance, performance art, theatre, viennese actionism
This book explores a spectrum of types and definitions of performance, from action painting, Gutai, Viennese Action art, and destruction in art to body and transgressive art, and from closed-circuit video to computer and telecommunications in performance. Sections of the book also address solo, as well as collective, performance, multifunctionalism and conceptual performance, the role of the spectator, and other neglected aspects of the range of performance.
Publisher Wilhelm Fink, Munich, 2001
Das Problempotential der Nachkriegsavantgarden series, 3
ISBN 3770534522, 9783770534524
543 pages
Reviews: Michael Hauffen (Kunstforum, 2001, DE), Holger Schulze (IASL, 2002, DE).
Comment (0)Fionnghuala Sweeney, Kate Marsh (eds.): Afromodernisms: Paris, Harlem, Haiti and the Avant-garde (2013)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, africa, afromodernism, art, art history, avant-garde, black people, blackness, body, colonialism, dance, futurism, jazz, modernism, music, politics, racism, sexuality, surrealism
“This collection of ten essays makes a persuasive case for a black Atlantic literary renaissance and its impact on modernist studies. The chapters stretch and challenge current canonical configurations of modernism in two ways: by considering the centrality of black artists, writers and intellectuals as key actors and core presences in the development of a modernist avant-garde; and by interrogating ‘blackness’ as an aesthetic and political category at critical moments during the twentieth century. This is the first book-length publication to explore the term ‘Afromodernisms’ and the first study to address together the cognate fields of modernism and the black Atlantic.”
Publisher Edinburgh University Press, 2013
ISBN 074864640X, 9780748646401
264 pages
Review: Dominic Thomas (French Studies, 2013).
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Comment (0)Calvin Tomkins: The Bride and the Bachelors: Five Masters of the Avant-Garde (1965/1976)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, art criticism, art history, dance, machine, music, painting
A classic work of art criticism. The chapters on Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Jean Tinguely, Robert Rauschenberg, and Merce Cunningham by an author also known for his work for Radio Free Europe, Newsweek, and The New Yorker.
First published by Viking Press, 1965
Viking Compass Edition with a new Introduction and expanded text published 1968
This edition by Penguin, 1976
ISBN 0140043136
306 pages
PDF (36 MB, no OCR)
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