04528nam 22006494a 450 991109120390332120251117120051.0978159734674015973467489780520936607052093660410.1525/9780520936607(CKB)1000000000003931(EBL)222906(OCoLC)70743334(SSID)ssj0000177688(PQKBManifestationID)11156296(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000177688(PQKBWorkID)10218770(PQKB)10359077(MiAaPQ)EBC222906(DE-B1597)520387(OCoLC)50639283(DE-B1597)9780520936607(Au-PeEL)EBL222906(CaPaEBR)ebr10051529(Perlego)552440(EXLCZ)99100000000000393120011017d2002 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIn other Los Angeleses multicentric performance art /Meiling Cheng1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20021 online resource (xxxiv, 407 pages) illustrations"Published in association with the Southern California Studies Center of the University of Southern California."9780520229532 0520229533 9780520235151 0520235150 Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-392) and index.Front matter --Contents --List of Illustrations --Preface --Acknowledgments --1. Inscribing Multicentricity --2. Out of Order --3. Engendering Other/Selves --4. Elia Arce --5. A Hetero-locus in Process --6. What's in a Name? --7. Kinesthetic Transmutation of Theatricality --Epilogue --Notes --IndexPerformance art and Los Angeles, two subjects spectacularly resistant to definitions, illuminate each other in this searching study by Meiling Cheng. A marginal artistic pursuit by choice as well as necessity, performance art has flourished in and about "multicentric" Los Angeles for nearly four decades, finding its own centers of activity, moving and changing as the margins have reconstituted themselves. The notion of multicentricity serves, somewhat paradoxically, as the unifying motif in Cheng's imaginative views of center and periphery, self and other, and "mainstream" and "marginal" cultures. She analyzes individual artists and performances in detail, bringing her own "center" gracefully and unmistakably into contact with all those others. Without suggesting that her approach is definitive, she offers a way of thinking and talking coherently about particularly elusive, ephemeral artwork. Cheng describes performance art as "an intermedia visual art form that uses theatrical elements in presentation." Performance art, which uses the living body as its central medium, occurs only "here" and only "now." Because it is intentionally volatile, highly adaptable, and often site-specific, with emphasis on audience interaction, context is inseparable from the work itself. When Cheng writes about Suzanne Lacy or Tim Miller, Johanna Went or Oguri and Renzoku, Sacred Naked Nature Girls or osseus labyrint, she is conscious of her role in extending their creative expression. As members of the "virtual audience," readers and viewers of other documentation concerning performance art are arrayed outside the center represented by a given artist and the circle represented by the immediate witnesses to a performance, but all may entertain what Cheng calls a conceptual ownership of the work. A person who reads about a performance, she says, may feel more affected by this virtual encounter than a person who has seen it live, and may reimagine it as a "prosthetic performance." Cheng's writing draws us into the many centers where a vibrant contemporary art phenomenon and a fascinating urban environment interact. Published in association with the Southern California Studies Center at the University of Southern CaliforniaPerformance artCaliforniaLos AngelesPerformance art700/.9794/94Cheng Meiling1960-1965286MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911091203903321In other Los Angeleses4728860UNINA03321nam 2200877Ia 450 991109321990332120200520144314.0978029580158202958015812027/heb34605(CKB)2550000000103337(EBL)3444465(SSID)ssj0000686787(PQKBManifestationID)11390515(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000686787(PQKBWorkID)10733337(PQKB)11737512(OCoLC)795712943(MdBmJHUP)muse38604(Au-PeEL)EBL3444465(CaPaEBR)ebr10565447(CaONFJC)MIL810646(OCoLC)932315507(dli)HEB34605.0001.001(MiU)MIU346050001001(DE-B1597)725430(DE-B1597)9780295801582(Perlego)723397(MiAaPQ)EBC3444465(EXLCZ)99255000000010333720000719d2001 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAfghanistan's endless war state failure, regional politics, and the rise of the Taliban /Larry P. Goodson1st ed.Seattle University of Washington Pressc20011 online resource (282 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780295995946 0295995947 9780295980508 0295980508 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Contents ""; ""Maps and Tables ""; ""Preface ""; ""1. Afghanistan in the Post-Cold War World ""; ""2. Historical Factors Shaping Modern Afghanistan ""; ""3. Modern War in Afghanistan: Destruction of a State ""; ""4. Impact of the War on Afghan State and Society ""; ""5. Afghanistan and the Changing Regional Environment ""; ""6. The Future of Afghanistan ""; ""Appendix: Major Actors in Modern Afghan History ""; ""Notes ""; ""Glossary ""; ""References Cited ""; ""Index ""Going beyond the stereotypes of Kalashnikov-wielding Afghan mujahideen and black-turbaned fundamentalists, Larry Goodson combines Taliban interviews and field research with concise analysis to explain what has been happening in Afghanistan in the last twenty years, and why the future of Afghanistan matters.SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American StudiesbisacshAfghanistanHistoryAfghanistanHistory1989-2001AfghanistanSocial conditionsHistory.fastWarsPolitical changeAfghanistanTalibanRegional securityHistoryOverseas itemSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies.958.115.75bclEV 774rvkMH 16094rvkNQ 8814rvkPR 2713rvk958.104622Goodson Larry P1084335MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911093219903321Afghanistan's endless war4752503UNINA