Unlimited Action The Performance of Extremity in The 1970s |
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| Author:
| Johnson, Dominic |
| Series title: | Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5261-3550-6 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2018 |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press
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| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | Free of charge contact
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Book Description:
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Extremity might suggest violence, pornography, criminality, misanthropy, danger, recklessness, eccentricity or obscurantism. How has art exceeded its own example through performance art? How have artists used performance to question and overextend the limits of form in the 1970s? And with what effects?
Extremity might suggest violence, pornography, criminality, misanthropy, danger, recklessness, eccentricity or obscurantism. How has art exceeded its own example through performance art? How have artists used performance to question and overextend the limits of form in the 1970s? And with what effects?