Performance in Contemporary Art

by Catherine Wood

In this important new survey, Catherine Wood proposes that performance is not a genre of art separate from object making but rather an attitude that has infiltrated the entire terrain of contemporary art. Examining in turn individual, social, and object-based approaches, Wood first examines the influential performance art of the 1960s to 1980 the body art of the Viennese actionists, the raw performances of Yoko Ono and Chris Burden, and the experiments of the Japanese Gutai group, among others. She then explores how these sources have been revisited, reformed, or rejected by con- temporary artists in the 21st century. This impressive book includes international artists who fall outside the traditional European and North American focus, giving the reader the broadest and most up-to-date insight into the subject yet published.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

256 pages, Hardcover

Published April 9, 2019

Reviews

[Jo · Rating 3 out of 5]

作者作为一个institutional curator，提供的观点是有点价值的；但是这本书更像是roughly梳理了performance history以及围绕着subject-object关系，performance在social engagement的表现，讲了很多例子，但是却很少展开讲每个例子的significancy，导致整本书都有点老生常谈，好像该谈的都谈到了，却怎么也谈的不深入。只能凑乎看看，经不起细读。而且作者描述好抽象啊！！一点都没讲出significancy啊！