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Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh
Adrian Heathfield
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Description for Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh
Paperback. Num Pages: 382 pages, 800 color illus. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ; AFKP; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 269 x 231 x 33. Weight in Grams: 2110.
Now in paperback, an updated edition of a visually stunning documentary record and critical account of Tehching Hsieh's epic performance works. In the vibrant downtown Manhattan art scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh made a series of extraordinary performance art works. Between September 1978 and July 1986, Hsieh realized five separate one-year-long performance pieces in which he conformed to simple but highly restrictive rules throughout each entire year. Through the course of these lifeworks, Hsieh moved from a year of solitary confinement in a sealed cell ... Read more
Now in paperback, an updated edition of a visually stunning documentary record and critical account of Tehching Hsieh's epic performance works. In the vibrant downtown Manhattan art scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh made a series of extraordinary performance art works. Between September 1978 and July 1986, Hsieh realized five separate one-year-long performance pieces in which he conformed to simple but highly restrictive rules throughout each entire year. Through the course of these lifeworks, Hsieh moved from a year of solitary confinement in a sealed cell ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
382
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262528214
SKU
V9780262528214
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About Adrian Heathfield
Adrian Heathfield is Professor of Performance and Visual Culture at Roehampton University, London. He is the editor of Live: Art and Performance, Small Acts, and Shattered Anatomies. Tehching Hsieh is an artist based in New York City.
Reviews for Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh
An aesthetic object in itself, Out of Now is a unique contribution to the field that blurs distinctionsbetween theory and practice and offers a compelling exploration of the relationshipbetween performance and the act of writing about performance. -Lara Shalson, The Drama Review The visual and emotional yield of Hsieh's works is overpowering: the 365-image photo-essay ofthe year ... Read more