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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794125303321

Autore

Spencer Catherine <1985->

Titolo

Beyond the Happening : performance art and the politics of communication / / Catherine Spencer [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-5261-4447-6

1-5261-5557-5

1-5261-4446-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 273 pages) : : illustrations

Collana

Rethinking art's histories

Manchester scholarship online

Disciplina

792

Soggetti

Performance art

Performance art - History

Performance art - Psychological aspects

Happenings (Art)

Communication - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : communication studies -- Allan Kaprow's lesson plans -- Marta Minujín's sociability experiments -- Carolee Schneemann's group work -- Lea Lublin's exercises in denaturalisation -- Conclusion : breaching experiments and social bodies.

Sommario/riassunto

'Beyond the Happening' uncovers the heterogeneous, uniquely interdisciplinary performance-based works that emerged in the aftermath of the early Happenings. By the mid-1960s Happenings were widely declared outmoded or even 'dead', but this book reveals how many practitioners continued to work with the form during the late 1960s and 1970s, developing it into a vehicle for studying interpersonal communication that simultaneously deployed and questioned contemporary sociology and psychology.