The concrete body : Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci / Elise Archias.

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Archias, Elise [Author]

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780300220438
9780300249804

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

NX511 .C663 2016

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Contents:

1. Hurray for People: Yvonne Rainer -- 2. Concretions : Carolee Schneemann -- 3. Reasons to Move : Vito Acconci -- Coda : Forming the Senses.

Subject: "...Examines the 1960s performance work of three New York artists who adapted modernist approaches to form for the medium of the human body. Finding parallels between the tactility of a drip of paint and a body's reflexive movements, Elise Archias argues convincingly that Yvonne Rainer (b. 1934), Carolee Schneemann (b. 1939), and Vito Acconci (b. 1940) forged a dialogue between modernist aesthetics and their own artistic community's embrace of all things ordinary through work that explored the abstraction born of the body's materiality. Rainer's task-like dances, Schneemann's sensuous appropriations of popular entertainment, and Acconci's behaviorist-inflected tests highlight the body's unintended movements as vital reminders of embodied struggle amid the constraining structures in contemporary culture. Archias also draws compelling comparisons between embodiment as performed in the work of these three artists and in the sit-ins and other nonviolent protests of the era"--Publisher's description.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

When the Body Is the Material -- 1. Hurray for People: Yvonne Rainer -- 2. Concretions : Carolee Schneemann -- 3. Reasons to Move : Vito Acconci -- Coda : Forming the Senses.

"...Examines the 1960s performance work of three New York artists who adapted modernist approaches to form for the medium of the human body. Finding parallels between the tactility of a drip of paint and a body's reflexive movements, Elise Archias argues convincingly that Yvonne Rainer (b. 1934), Carolee Schneemann (b. 1939), and Vito Acconci (b. 1940) forged a dialogue between modernist aesthetics and their own artistic community's embrace of all things ordinary through work that explored the abstraction born of the body's materiality. Rainer's task-like dances, Schneemann's sensuous appropriations of popular entertainment, and Acconci's behaviorist-inflected tests highlight the body's unintended movements as vital reminders of embodied struggle amid the constraining structures in contemporary culture. Archias also draws compelling comparisons between embodiment as performed in the work of these three artists and in the sit-ins and other nonviolent protests of the era"--Publisher's description.

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