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Routledge Performing the Body/Performing the Text - Routledge Art Theory Book

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Performing the Body/Performing the Text by Routledge explores how contemporary art practices since the 1960s have redefined visual culture through performance and theatricality. This influential work examines body art, minimalism, and other movements that challenged traditional gallery spaces and art criticism conventions. The book argues that interpretation must be understood as dynamic and contingent, moving beyond static analytical frameworks. It features contributions that bridge canonical fine artists including Manet, De Kooning and Jasper Johns with emerging performative practices. By offering its own performance script, this text demonstrates how contemporary art theory has fundamentally transformed the way we understand visual representation, embodiment, and the relationship between artistic practice and critical interpretation in modern visual culture.

Key Features

Explores performativity in art theory and practice since the 1960s, examining body art and minimalism as movements outside traditional museums and galleries.

Argues that interpretation of visual culture should be understood as dynamic and contingent rather than fixed or predetermined.

Features contributions on canonical fine artists such as Manet, De Kooning and Jasper Johns alongside contemporary performative practices and methods.

Published by Routledge as a comprehensive exploration of how performance and theatricality have challenged traditional art criticism boundaries.

Presents its own performance script as part of the text, demonstrating theory through practice within the book itself.

Product Specifications

Format
hardcover
Domain
Amazon UK
Release Date
15 April 1999
Listed Since
29 December 2006

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