Performance
Duke University Press · Print & ebook · March 18, 2016
A Art pick for readers exploring Performance.
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- Who it’s for
- For readers interested in performance across artistic, political, and everyday life
- Themes
- Performance and power, Memory and identity, Gendered and racialized bodies
- Pacing
- Reflective
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"Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book performs its argument.
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Images and texts interact to show how performance is at once a creative act, a means to comprehend power, a method of transmitting memory and identity, and a way of understanding the world.
Who it’s for
- For readers interested in performance across artistic, political, and everyday life
- For readers exploring how performance conveys power, memory, and identity
Where it sits
| Art Criticism & Ideas | 49% |
|---|---|
| Gender Studies | 44% |
| Performance Art | 41% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Contemporary Art History (1945-)
- Performing Arts
- Theater History & Criticism
- Authors
- Diana Taylor
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Published
- March 18, 2016
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Performance and power · Memory and identity · Gendered and racialized bodies
- Reading lane
- Contemporary Art History (1945-)