Cutting Performances : Collage Events, Feminist Artists, and the American Avant-Garde Hardback
by James M. Harding
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This book sheds light on the critical role that women artists have played in the evolution of the American avant-garde. ""Cutting Performances"" boldly challenges four decades of scholarship to revise the history of American avant-garde performance.
Focusing on the modernist period, the book explores the work of five celebrated women artists whose performance aesthetics make prominent use of collage techniques - Elsa von Freytag-Loring-hoven, Gertrude Stein, Yoko Ono, Carolee Schneemann, and Valerie Solanas - to reveal how their work gave a decisively feminist inflection to collage as a mode of avant-garde expression.
Drawing upon broadly conceptualized notions of collage aesthetics and performance art, this impressively interdisciplinary work will appeal to anyone interested in the cultural history of the avant-garde and the role that feminist experimental artists have played in it.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:The University of Michigan Press
- Publication Date:25/02/2010
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- ISBN:9780472117185
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:The University of Michigan Press
- Publication Date:25/02/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780472117185
