Unlimited Action The Performance of Extremity in the 1970S - Theatre

Unlimited action concerns the limits imposed upon art and life, and the means by which artists have exposed, refused, or otherwise reshaped the horizon of aesthetics and of the practice of art, by way of performance art. It examines the 'performance of extremity' as practices at the limits of the histories of performance and art, in performance art's most fertile and prescient decade, the 1970s. Dominic Johnson recounts and analyses game-changing performance events by six artists: Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Genesis P-Orridge, Anne Bean, the Kipper Kids, and Stephen Cripps. Through close encounters with these six artists and their works, and a broader contextual milieu of artists and works, Johnson articulates a counter-history of actions in a new narrative of performance art in the 1970s, to rethink and rediscover the history of contemporary art and performance.

ISBN:	9781526135513
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Published date:	07 Dec 2018
DEWEY:	709.04075509047
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xiii, 217
Weight:	374g
Height:	158mm
Width:	234mm
Spine width:	17mm

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