Unlimited Action : The Performance of Extremity in the 1970s
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance
ISBN-10
0719091608
ISBN-13
9780719091605
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 28th, 2018
Print length
232 Pages
Weight
530 grams
Dimensions
24.20 x 16.60 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Performance art
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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? -- .
Unlimited action concerns the limits imposed upon art and life, and the means by which artists have exposed, refused, or otherwise reshaped the horizon of aesthetics and of the practice of art, by way of performance art. It examines the ''performance of extremity'' as practices at the limits of the histories of performance and art, in performance art''s most fertile and prescient decade, the 1970s. Dominic Johnson recounts and analyses game-changing performance events by six artists: Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Genesis P-Orridge, Anne Bean, the Kipper Kids, and Stephen Cripps. Through close encounters with these six artists and their works, and a broader contextual milieu of artists and works, Johnson articulates a counter-history of actions in a new narrative of performance art in the 1970s, to rethink and rediscover the history of contemporary art and performance.
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