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- catalog abstract ""This finely illustrated book offers a simple yet comprehensive 'grammar' of a new discipline." "Performance Art first became popular in the fifties when artists began creating 'happenings'. Since then the artist as a performer has challenged many of the accepted rules of theatre and radically altered our notion of what constitutes visual art. This is the first publication to outline the essential characteristics of the field and to put forward a method for teaching the subject as a discipline distinct from dance, drama, painting or sculpture."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12463288.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""This finely illustrated book offers a simple yet comprehensive 'grammar' of a new discipline." "Performance Art first became popular in the fifties when artists began creating 'happenings'. Since then the artist as a performer has challenged many of the accepted rules of theatre and radically altered our notion of what constitutes visual art. This is the first publication to outline the essential characteristics of the field and to put forward a method for teaching the subject as a discipline distinct from dance, drama, painting or sculpture."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Acknowledgements -- List of plates -- Preface -- 1. Stillness -- 2. Being clothing -- 3. Mimicry and repetition -- 4. The Other and the other -- 5. Inconsistency, catastrophe and surprise -- 6. Cathexes and chaos -- 7. Drives and primaries -- 8. Transitions as desires -- 9. Transference, substitution and reversal -- 10. Language -- 11. Time and space -- 12. Cathexes of desire -- 13. Looking at light -- 14. Presence or puppeteering -- 15. Conclusion.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-249) and index.".
- catalog extent "xv, 254 p. :".
- catalog identifier "9057550865 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Contemporary theatre studies ; v. 32".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Amsterdam, The Netherlands : Harwood Academic,".
- catalog subject "Experimental theater.".
- catalog subject "NX456.5.P38 H68 2000".
- catalog subject "Performance art Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Performance art.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Acknowledgements -- List of plates -- Preface -- 1. Stillness -- 2. Being clothing -- 3. Mimicry and repetition -- 4. The Other and the other -- 5. Inconsistency, catastrophe and surprise -- 6. Cathexes and chaos -- 7. Drives and primaries -- 8. Transitions as desires -- 9. Transference, substitution and reversal -- 10. Language -- 11. Time and space -- 12. Cathexes of desire -- 13. Looking at light -- 14. Presence or puppeteering -- 15. Conclusion.".
- catalog title "The analysis of performance art : a guide to its theory and practice / Anthony Howell.".
- catalog type "text".