Performance artists talking in the eighties : sex, food, money/fame, ritual/death / compiled by Linda M. Montano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montano, Linda M., Author.

Contributor:

Montano, Linda, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performance artists--United States--Interviews.

Performance artists.

Performance art--United States.

Performance art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (588 pages) : illustrations, plates

Edition:

Reprint 2019

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Performance artist Linda Montano, curious about the influence childhood experience has on adult work, invited other performance artists to consider how early events associated with sex, food, money/fame, or death/ritual resurfaced in their later work. The result is an original and compelling talking performance that documents the production of art in an important and often misunderstood community. Among the more than 100 artists Montano interviewed from 1979 to 1989 were John Cage, Suzanne Lacy, Faith Ringgold, Dick Higgins, Annie Sprinkle, Allan Kaprow, Meredith Monk, Eric Bogosian, Adrian Piper, Karen Finley, and Kim Jones. Her discussions with them focused on the relationship between art and life, history and memory, the individual and society, and the potential for individual and social change. The interviews highlight complex issues in performance art, including the role of identity in performer-audience relationships and art as an exploration of everyday conventions rather than a demonstration of virtuosity.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Introduction: Shall We Talk? Linda M. Montano Performs Autobiographical Voices

PART ONE. Sex

PART TWO. Food

PART THREE. Money/fame

PART FOUR. Ritual/death

Afterword: Quicksilver and Revelations: Performance Art at the End of the Twentieth Century

Biographies

Index

Notes:

"Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612758713

9781282758711

1282758713

9780520919662

0520919661

9781597348027

1597348023

OCLC:

475926734