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Performance

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Description for Performance Paperback. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores the multiple and overlapping meanings of performance, showing how it can convey everything from artistic, economic, and sexual performance, to providing ways of understanding how race, gender, identity, and power are performed. Num Pages: 240 pages, 74 illustrations. BIC Classification: AFKP; AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 205 x 13. Weight in Grams: 386.
Performance has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book performs its argument. Images and texts interact to show how performance is at once a creative act, a means to comprehend power, a method of transmitting memory and identity, and a way of understanding the world.

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
386g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822359975
SKU
V9780822359975
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About Diana Taylor
Diana Taylor is University Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University. She is the author and editor of several books, including The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas and Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's Dirty War , both also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews for Performance
Incredibly important. Performance is a proffer of a new way of looking and thinking about performance.
Robert Summers
CAA Reviews
This book is a valuable introduction to performance art and performance studies. It is deftly argued and elegantly composed. Taylor concludes by saying that performance is `world-making' and that we need to understand it (208). ... Read more

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