LEADER 02929oam 22006494a 450 001 9910793399903321 005 20230111230538.0 010 $a1-5261-3552-3 010 $a1-5261-4195-7 010 $a1-5261-3550-7 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526135506 035 $a(CKB)4100000007150755 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5597875 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002046382 035 $a(OCoLC)1085625239 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse72858 035 $a(DE-B1597)660205 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526135506 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007150755 100 $a20181221e20182019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aUnlimited action$eThe performance of extremity in the 1970s /$fDominic Johnson 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2018 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE,$d2020 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (217 pages) 225 0 $aTheatre: theory, practice, performance 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2019. 311 $a1-5261-3551-5 311 $a0-7190-9160-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [206]-213) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : performance-action-extremity -- The preferred ordeal -- A criminal touch -- The dirtying intention -- Impossible things -- The art of sabotage -- Conclusion : reckless people.- 330 $aUnlimited action concerns the limits imposed upon art and life, and the means by which artists have exposed, refused, or otherwise reshaped the horizon of aesthetics and of the practice of art, by way of performance art. It examines the 'performance of extremity' as practices at the limits of the histories of performance and art, in performance art's most fertile and prescient decade, the 1970s. Dominic Johnson recounts and analyses game-changing performance events by six artists: Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Genesis P-Orridge, Anne Bean, the Kipper Kids, and Stephen Cripps. Through close encounters with these six artists and their works, and a broader contextual milieu of artists and works, Johnson articulates a counter-history of actions in a new narrative of performance art in the 1970s, to rethink and rediscover the history of contemporary art and performance. 410 0$aTheatre (Manchester, England) 606 $aAesthetics 606 $aPerformance art$xHistory$y20th century 610 $a1970s. 610 $aaction. 610 $aart. 610 $aextremity. 610 $ahistory. 610 $alimits. 610 $aperformance art. 615 0$aAesthetics. 615 0$aPerformance art$xHistory 676 $a700.411 700 $aJohnson$b Dominic$0936090 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793399903321 996 $aUnlimited action$93780368 997 $aUNINA