Let's get it on : the politics of Black performance / edited by Catherine Ugwu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ugwu, Catherine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performance art--United States.

Performance art.

Arts, Black.

United States.

African American arts.

Performance art--England.

England.

Arts, Black--England.

Minorities in art.

Multiculturalism in art.

Physical Description:

224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Institute of Contemporary Arts ; Seattle : Bay Press, [1995]

Summary:

In recent years, performance art has become the primary medium for challenging the boundaries between art and politics, as artists have uniquely used its strategies to respond to contemporary social crises. Both an overdue history and a state-of-the-art survey, Let's Get It On focuses on the work of Latino, Afro-Caribbean, African-American, Indian, and South East Asian artists working in the U.S. and Great Britain. The contributors explore contemporary notions of diversity and difference and express the spectrum of multicultural identity in the 1990s. A color-illustrated section of artists' pages illuminates the diversity of voices operating in current practice and the power of the live experience.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

094192033X

0905263642

OCLC:

32348000