1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910793399903321

Autore

Johnson Dominic

Titolo

Unlimited action : The performance of extremity in the 1970s / / Dominic Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2018

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020

©2018

ISBN

1-5261-3552-3

1-5261-4195-7

1-5261-3550-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 pages)

Collana

Theatre: theory, practice, performance

Disciplina

700.411

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Performance art - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [206]-213) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : performance-action-extremity -- The preferred ordeal -- A criminal touch -- The dirtying intention -- Impossible things -- The art of sabotage -- Conclusion : reckless people.-

Sommario/riassunto

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.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140334303321

Autore

Sharp Katie

Titolo

Ellen DeGeneres / / by Katie Sharp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, Mich. : , : Lucent Books, , 2010

ISBN

1-4205-0314-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (96 pages) : color illustrations

Collana

People in the news

Disciplina

792.7028092

Soggetti

Women comedians - United States

Television personalities - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: lessons in perseverance -- Growing up Ellen -- Finding Ellen -- The courage to stand up -- Coming out: "the puppy episode" -- The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Sommario/riassunto

Profiles the life and career of comedian and talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres.