The Concrete Body
Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci
by Elise Archias

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Auteur(s)

Elise Archias

Uitgever, jaar

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2016

Omvang

226 p., geïllustreerd, 26 cm.

ISBN

9780300217971

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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.

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Persoon als onderwerp

Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci

Trefwoorden

film , video , installation , sculpture

Locatie in de bibliotheek

Kast 31 - 1: Performance ; lichaam en ruimte

Extra thema's

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;

Opmerkingen

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.