Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci
by Elise Archias
- Author(s)
- Elise Archias
- Publication, year
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2016
- Scope
- 226 Pages, illustrated, 26 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780300217971
This book examines the 1960s performance work of three New York artists who adapted modernist approaches to form for the medium of the human body. Finding parallels between the tactility of a drip of paint and a body’s reflexive movements, Elise Archias argues convincingly that Yvonne Rainer (b. 1934), Carolee Schneemann (b. 1939), and Vito Acconci (b. 1940) forged a dialogue between modernist aesthetics and their own artistic community’s embrace of all things ordinary through work that explored the abstraction born of the body’s materiality. Archias also draws compelling comparisons between embodiment as performed in the work of these three artists and in the sit-ins and other nonviolent protests of the era.
- Person as subject
- Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci
- Keywords
- film , video , installation , sculpture
- Location
- Cabinet 31 - 1: Performance ; lichaam en ruimte
- Extra themes
- Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
