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The Object of Performance. American Avant-garde Since 1970.
Henry M. Sayre
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Paperback. Num Pages: 324 pages, 4 colour plates, 91 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; AB; AS; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 616.
Sayre defines for the first time the apparently diffuse avant-garde art of the past two decades in terms of its distinctly postmodern concerns. The range of arts discussed here encompasses contemporary dance, photography, oral poetics, performance art, and earthworks.
"Sayre has written one of the most intelligent, sensible, and readable accounts of the tenents of Postmodern artmaking published to date."—Jeff Abell, New Art Examiner
"No one can read The Object of Performance without gaining a far better idea than before of what has happened to art, and, in some measure, why. . . . I find this ... Read more
Sayre defines for the first time the apparently diffuse avant-garde art of the past two decades in terms of its distinctly postmodern concerns. The range of arts discussed here encompasses contemporary dance, photography, oral poetics, performance art, and earthworks.
"Sayre has written one of the most intelligent, sensible, and readable accounts of the tenents of Postmodern artmaking published to date."—Jeff Abell, New Art Examiner
"No one can read The Object of Performance without gaining a far better idea than before of what has happened to art, and, in some measure, why. . . . I find this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226735580
SKU
V9780226735580
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