The Analysis of Performance Art : A Guide to its Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9789057550867 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 246 str.

Anthony Howell;Howell Anthony

Opis

Artists as performers have radically altering our notion of what constitutes visual art. This text puts forward a method for teaching the subject as a discipline distinct from dance, drama, painting or sculpture.

Spis treści

Introduction to the Series Acknowledgements List of Plates Preface 1. Stillness 2. Being Clothing 3. Mimicry and Repetition 4. The Other and the other 5. Inconsistency, Catastrophe and Surprise 6. Cathexes and Chaos 7. Drives and Primaries 8. Transitions as Desires 9. Transference, Substitution and Reversal 10. Language 11. Time and Space 12. Cathexes of Desire 13. Looking at Light 14. Presence or Puppeteering 15. Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index

O autorze

Anthony Howell was the founder and director of The Theatre of Mistakes - a performance company of the seventies noted for its work in galleries as well as in theatres - and is the co-author of Elements of Performance Art, the first compendium of performance exercise. He has performed at the Tate Gallery (London), at the Paula Cooper Gallery (New York) and at the Paris and Sydney Biennales, as well as at the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre (London), the Theatre for the New City (New York) and the Théâtre Dejazet (Paris). Recently he created "Commentary on Klein" for London's Hayward Gallery. A Senior Lecturer in art and performance, he is the editor of Grey Suit: Video for Art and Literature, and for several years he has organised the performance festival "Cardiff Art in Time". He has also published a novel and seven books of poetry, and has lectured and performed at theatre festivals, at universities and at art galleries in Denmark, Serbia and Macedonia. He recently directed The Infernal Triangle at the ICA, London.