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Performance / Diana Taylor ; translated from Spanish by Abigail Levine ; adapted into English by Diana Taylor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Diana, 1950- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Performance. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performance art.
- Performance art--Political aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822375128
- 0822375125
- OCLC:
- 930799720
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