No Innocent Bystanders

Performance Art and Audience

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, General Art, Criticism, Entertainment, Performing Arts
Cover of the book No Innocent Bystanders by Frazer Ward, Dartmouth College Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Frazer Ward ISBN: 9781611683363
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press Publication: October 8, 2012
Imprint: Dartmouth College Press Language: English
Author: Frazer Ward
ISBN: 9781611683363
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Publication: October 8, 2012
Imprint: Dartmouth College Press
Language: English

At a moment when performance art and performance generally are at the center of the international art world, Frazer Ward offers us insightful readings of major performance pieces by the likes of Acconci, Burden, Abramovic, and Hsieh, and confronts the twisting and troubled relationship that performance art has had with the spectator and the public sphere. Ward contends that the ethical challenges with which performance art confronts its viewers speak to the reimagining of the audience, in terms that suggest the collapse of notions like “public” and “community.” A thoughtful, even urgent discussion of the relationship between art and the audience that will appeal to a broad range of art historians, artists, and others interested in constructions of the public sphere.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

At a moment when performance art and performance generally are at the center of the international art world, Frazer Ward offers us insightful readings of major performance pieces by the likes of Acconci, Burden, Abramovic, and Hsieh, and confronts the twisting and troubled relationship that performance art has had with the spectator and the public sphere. Ward contends that the ethical challenges with which performance art confronts its viewers speak to the reimagining of the audience, in terms that suggest the collapse of notions like “public” and “community.” A thoughtful, even urgent discussion of the relationship between art and the audience that will appeal to a broad range of art historians, artists, and others interested in constructions of the public sphere.

More books from Dartmouth College Press

Cover of the book Horizons of Enchantment by Frazer Ward
Cover of the book Playing with Earth and Sky by Frazer Ward
Cover of the book The Imaginary and Its Worlds by Frazer Ward
Cover of the book Girlhood and the Plastic Image by Frazer Ward
Cover of the book Photography, History, Difference by Frazer Ward
Cover of the book The Dancing Universe by Frazer Ward
Cover of the book New World Courtships by Frazer Ward
Cover of the book An American Body | Politic by Frazer Ward
Cover of the book What Are the Arts and Sciences? by Frazer Ward
Cover of the book Afterlives of Indigenous Archives by Frazer Ward
Cover of the book Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture by Frazer Ward
Cover of the book Trauma and Recovery on War's Border by Frazer Ward
Cover of the book Arctic Adaptations by Frazer Ward
Cover of the book Errands into the Metropolis by Frazer Ward
Cover of the book Community without Consent by Frazer Ward
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy