Laurie Anderson's big science / S. Alexander Reed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reed, S. Alexander, author.

Series:

Oxford keynotes.

Oxford Keynotes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art appreciation.

Anderson, Laurie, 1947-. Big Science.

Anderson, Laurie.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Shimmering in maximal minimalism, joyful bleakness, and bodiless intimacy, 'Laurie Anderson's Big Science' diagnosed crises of meaning, scale, and identity in 1982. Decades later, the strange questions it poses loom even larger: How do we remain human when our identities are digitally distributed? Does technology bring us closer together or further apart? Can we experience the stillness of 'now' when time is always moving? How does our experience become memory? Laurie Anderson pioneered new techniques and aesthetics in performance art, becoming its first and most enduring superstar. In this book, author S. Alexander Reed dives into the wonderfully strange making and meanings of this singular album and of its creator's long artistic career.

Contents:

Cover

Half title

Series

Laurie Anderson's Big Science

Copyright

Series Editor's Introduction

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

1: Finding the Now in Big Science

2: Too Big to Fail

3: Describing Side One

4: Flipping the Record

5: Describing Side Two

6: New Music versus New Wave

7: The Gendered Making of Ungendered Style

8: Bigness as Usual

Postlude

Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-092605-8

0-19-092603-1

OCLC:

1281983860