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Performance art in Eastern Europe since 1960 / Amy Bryzgel.

By: Series: Rethinking art's historiesPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: xvii, 366 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781784994211
  • 1784994219
  • 9781784994228
  • 1784994227
Subject(s):
Contents:
Sources and origins -- The body -- Gender -- Politics and identity -- Institutional critique.
Summary: This volume presents the first comprehensive academic study of the history and development of performance art in the former communist countries of Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe since the 1960s. Covering 21 countries and more than 250 artists, this text demonstrates the manner in which performance art in the region developed concurrently with the genre in the West, highlighting the unique contributions of Eastern European artists. The discussions are based on primary source material-interviews with the artists themselves. It offers a comparative study of the genre of performance art in countries and cities across the region, examining the manner in which artists addressed issues such as the body, gender, politics and identity, and institutional critique.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Yellow 709.040755 BRY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 08978

Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-345) and index.

Sources and origins -- The body -- Gender -- Politics and identity -- Institutional critique.

This volume presents the first comprehensive academic study of the history and development of performance art in the former communist countries of Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe since the 1960s. Covering 21 countries and more than 250 artists, this text demonstrates the manner in which performance art in the region developed concurrently with the genre in the West, highlighting the unique contributions of Eastern European artists. The discussions are based on primary source material-interviews with the artists themselves. It offers a comparative study of the genre of performance art in countries and cities across the region, examining the manner in which artists addressed issues such as the body, gender, politics and identity, and institutional critique.