Henry M. Sayre: The Object of Performance: The American Avant-Garde since 1970 (1989)
21 July 2017, dusan
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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