Name: Lea Vergine — Body Art and Performance
SKU: 18665
Price: 245.00 DKK
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Lea Vergine — Body Art and Performance

245,00 kr.

“The Body as Language” or “Body-art” and Performance” was immediately a huge hit, reviewed by some of the most influential art historians and writers (Giulio C. Argan, Edoardo Sanguineti, Max Kozloff, Lucy Lippard, François Pluchart, Peter Gorsen, Evelyn Weiss and many others) and is today considered a major classic. – A direct testimony of the birth and development of one of the most controversial art trends, Lea Vergine’s book avails of a series of texts by the artists themselves, whom the author had asked to contribute with a statement about the illustrations of their work. Featuring a thorough documentation of original photographs and film photograms, videotapes, happenings, actions and performances, the book analyses the evolution of this phenomenon through the works of artists who have worked with and on the body. First edition thus. “Body Art and Performance”

Description

Body Art and Performance: The Body as Language. Milano: Skira, 2000. 8vo in stiff wraps as issued. 291 pages, illustrated. Text in English. Fine clean and unread copy

Performance art by Vito Acconci, Giovanni Anselmo, Keith Arnatt, John Baldessari, Gianfranco Baruchello, Ben Vautier, Valentina Berardinone, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Trisha Brown, Günter Brus, Enrico Bugli, Pierpaolo Calzolari, Cioni Carpi, Giuseppe Chiari, Giorgio Ciam, Jole de Freitas, Giuseppe Desiato, Alain d’Hooghe, Tery Fox, Howard Lee Fried, Gilbert e George, Dan Graham, Rebecca Horn, Enrico Job, Joan Jonas, Michel Journiac, Ketty La Rocca, Urs Lüthi, Elio Mariani, Tom Marione, Denis Masi, Eliseo Mattiacci, Fabio Mauri, Annette Messager, Otto Muehl, Nagasawa, Ugo Nespolo, Hermann Nitsch, Luigi Ontani, Dennis Oppenheim, Jean Otth, Stanislao Pacus, Gina Pane, Luca Patella, Giuseppe Penone, Gianni Pisani, Vettor Pesani, Arnulf Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Allen Ruppersberg, Lucas Samaras, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Richard Serra, Katharina Sieverding, Aldo Tagliaferro, A. Antonio Trotta, Janos Urban, Franco Vaccari, Gruppo Zaj, Michele Zaza

(= Il corpo come linguaggio – La “Body-art” e storie simili “The Body as Language”)