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Performance / Diana Taylor ; translated from Spanish by Abigail Levine ; adapted into English by Diana Taylor.
LIBRA NX456.5.P38 T3913 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Diana, 1950- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Performance. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Performance art.
- Performance art--Political aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 221 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Summary:
- In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores the multiple and overlapping meanings of performance, showing how it can convey everything from artistic, economic, and sexual performance, to providing ways of understanding how race, gender, identity, and power are performed.
- Contents:
- Framing [performance]
- Performance histories
- Spect-actors
- The new uses of performance
- Performative and performativity
- Knowing through performance : scenarios and simulation
- Artivists (artist-activists), or, what's to be done?
- The future(s) of performance
- Performance studies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822359548
- 0822359545
- 9780822359975
- 0822359979
- OCLC:
- 903284250
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