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Performing the Body Performing the Text

By Amelia Jones

Book information

Year
1999
ISBN
0415190592, 9780415190596, 9780203983553, 0415190606, 9780415190602, 0203983556
LCC
NX456.5.P38 P468 1999
Open Library ID
OL6896702M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9885601 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
320\302
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book explores the new performativity in art theory and practice, examining ways of rethinking interpretive processes in visual culture. Since the 1960s, visual art practices - from body art to minimalism - have taken contemporary art outside the museum and gallery; by embracing theatricality and performance and exploding the boundaries set by traditional art criticism. The contributors argue that interpretation needs to be recognised as much more dynamic and contingent. Offering its own performance script, and embracing both canonical fine artists such as Manet, De Kooning and Jasper Johns, and performance artists such as Vito Acconci and Gunter Brus, this book offers radical re-readings of art works and points confidently towards new models for understanding art.

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