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Leaving Art: Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics, 1974–2007

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Description for Leaving Art: Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics, 1974–2007 Paperback.
Since the 1970s, the performance and conceptual artist Suzanne Lacy has explored women’s lives and experiences, as well as race, ethnicity, aging, economic disparities, and violence, through her pioneering community-based art. Combining aesthetics and politics, and often collaborating with other artists and community organizations, she has staged large-scale public art projects, sometimes involving hundreds of participants. Lacy has consistently written about her work: planning, describing, and analyzing it; advocating socially engaged art practices; theorizing the relationship between art and social intervention; and questioning the boundaries separating high art from popular participation. By bringing together thirty texts that Lacy has written ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822345695
SKU
V9780822345695
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About Suzanne Lacy
Suzanne Lacy is an internationally known artist whose work includes installations, video, and large-scale performances on social themes and urban issues. She is also chair of the Master in Fine Arts in Public Practice program at Otis College of Art and Design. Lacy edited the collection Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art and has published more than seventy articles ... Read more

Reviews for Leaving Art: Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics, 1974–2007
“For nearly 40 years Ms. Lacy’s collaborative, community-based art projects, some involving hundreds of people, have been grappling with matters of race, class and possible social change with a hands-on audacity that few artists can match. This book, with a persuasive introduction by the artist-historian Moira Roth, at last puts Ms. Lacy’s own fluent accounts of her life and work ... Read more

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