The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art (Methuen Drama Handbooks)

Synopsis

The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art offers a comprehensive guide to the major issues and interdisciplinary debates concerning performance in art contexts that have developed over the last decade. It understands performance art as an institutional, cultural, and economic phenomenon rather than as a label or object. Following the ever-increasing institutionalization and mainstreaming of performance, the book's chapters identify a marked change in the economies and labor practices surrounding performance art, and explore how this development is reflective of capitalist approaches to art and event production. Embracing what we perceive to be the 'oxymoronic status' of performance art-where it is simultaneously precarious and highly profitable-the essays in this book map the myriad gestures and radical possibilities of this extreme contradiction.This Companion adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to present performance art's legacies and its current practices. It brings together specially commissioned essays from leading innovative scholars from a wide range of approaches including art history, visual and performance studies, dance and theatre scholarship in order to provide a comprehensive and multifocal overview of the emerging research trends and methodologies devoted to performance art.

Copyright:

2020

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781350057593

Related ISBNs:

9781350057579, 9781350057579

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing

Date of Addition:

03/04/20

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N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Reference, Art and Architecture, Drama, Plays and Theater

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Bertie Ferdman

Edited by:

Jovana Stokic