"This book explores how Conceptual art changed and radicalised ideas and practices of performance. Conceptual Performance sets out the history, theoretical basis, and character of this genre of work through a wide range of case studies. The volume considers how and why principal modes and agendas in Conceptual art in the 1960s and 1970s necessitated new engagements with performance, as well as expanded notions of theatricality. In doing so, this book reviews and challenges prevailing histories of Conceptual art through critical frameworks of performativity and performance. It also considers how Conceptual art adopted and redefined terms and tropes of theatre and performance: including score, document, embodiment, documentation, relic, remains, and the narrative recuperation of ephemeral work. While showing how performance has been integral to Conceptual art's critiques of prevailing assumptions about art's form, purpose, and meaning, this volume also considers the reach and influence of Conceptual performance into recent thinking and practice. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of theatre, performance, contemporary art, and art history"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Languages
Documents
Things
Infiltrations
Theatricalities.
Other title(s)
Enacting conceptual art
ISBN
9781138907645 ((hardback))
1138907642
9781138907652 ((paperback))
1138907650
LCCN
2023038410
OCLC
1412154115
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