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Performance Art in Eastern Europe Since 1960

Amy Bryzgel

  • Bindwijze: Hardcover
  • Taal: en
  • Categorie: Kunst & Fotografie
  • ISBN: 9781784994211
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Taal:en
Bindwijze:Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:03 februari 2017
Aantal pagina's:384
Illustraties:Nee
Betrokkenen
Hoofdauteur:Amy Bryzgel
Tweede Auteur:Marsha Meskimmon
Hoofdredacteur:Marsha Meskimmon
Hoofdredacteur:Marsha Meskimmon
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Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:156 mm
Product lengte:234 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:156 mm
Verpakking hoogte:234 mm
Verpakking lengte:234 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:948 g
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Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:156 mm
Product lengte:234 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:156 mm
Verpakking hoogte:234 mm
Verpakking lengte:234 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:948 g

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This is the first comprehensive academic study of the history of performance art in Eastern Europe. It is a comparative study that covers twenty-one countries across the region, highlighting the unique contribution of these artists to the genre of performance art.

This volume presents the first comprehensive academic study of the history and development of performance art in the former communist countries of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe since the 1960s. Covering twenty-one countries and more than 250 artists, in addition to filling a lamentable gap in the literature on performance art and highlighting the diversity of practice across this very large and varied region of Europe, this text offers the following thesis: that artists from Eastern Europe were both connected to and independent of developments in the West, developing their performative and experimental work concurrently with artists in Western Europe and North America.

The first chapter casts a wide net over the beginning and development of performative practices in the East since the 1960s, citing seminal actions and happenings and early performances. The next four chapters address common themes undertaken by artists in the region – themes that emerged from the research: the body, gender, politics and identity and institutional critique. The author's method is comparative, employing Piotr Piotrowski's 'horizontal art history' to examine the centre from the perspective of the periphery. Bryzgel also examines performance art practices from a socio-historical and socio-political perspective, demonstrating how experimental art can serve as a litmus test for the limits of tolerance and prohibition in post-totalitarian communist Eastern Europe.

As the first comprehensive survey of the subject, this text is essential for those in the field of performance studies, or those researching contemporary Eastern European art. It will also be of interest to those in Slavic studies, art history and visual culture.