Performing the East: Performance Art in Russia, Latvia and Poland Since 1980 - Couverture rigide

Bryzgel, Amy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1848859481 ISBN 13 : 9781848859487

Editeur : I.B. Tauris, 2013

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Performance art in Western Europe and North America developed in part as a response to the commercialisation of the art object, as artists endeavoured to create works of art that could not be bought or sold. But what are the roots of performance art in Eastern Europe and Russia, where there was no real art market to speak of? While many artworks created in the East may resemble Western performance art practices, their origins, as well as their meaning and significance, is decidedly different. By placing specific performances from Russia, Latvia and Poland from the late- and post-communist periods within a local and international context, this book pinpoints the nuances between performance art East and West.

Performance art in Eastern Europe is examined for the first time as agent and chronicle of the transition from Soviet and satellite states to free-market democracies. Drawing upon previously unpublished sources and exclusive interviews with the artists themselves, Amy Bryzgel explores the actions of the period, from Miervaldis Polis s Bronze Man to Oleg Kulik s Russian Dog performances. Bryzgel demonstrates that in the late-1980s and early 1990s, performance art in Eastern Europe went beyond the modernist critique to express ideas outside the official discourse, shocking and empowering the citizenry, both effecting and mirroring the social changes taking place at the time. Performing the East opens the way to an urgent reassessment of the history, function and meaning of performance art practices in East-Central Europe.

Revue de presse :

'Amy Bryzgel's Performing the East charts new territory in a great many ways. The product of ten years of dedicated research into specific "explicit bodies" produced in Russia, Latvia and Poland in the 1980s and 1990s, its case studies and critiques contain nuggets of inflections that alter our understanding of late twentieth-century performance art projects. The appreciation of the discourses on life, art, politics, langauge, gender and identity offered by six artists (five male and one female) who Bryzgel put under her intellectual microscope will be of very great benefit to those concerned with comprehending the trajectories of recent art.'

(Jeremy Howard, Senior Lecturer, School of Art History, University of St Andrews)

'Amy Bryzgel does a wonderful job of analyzing and contextualizing recent Eastern European performance art. Her ability to weave together descriptions of performances into a coherent narrative of the cultural, political, social and artistic movements which gave rise to them makes this an invaluable reference source and an excellent read. For anyone who is interested in contemporary art, this book will open new avenues of inquiry for the reader to explore.'

--(Mark Konecny, Associate Director of the Institute of Modern Russian Culture, University of Southern California (USC)()

'This book represents a pioneering source... on a par with such extent works as those of Piotr Piotrowski.'

--(Choice)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: I.B. Tauris
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1848859481
• ISBN 13: 9781848859487
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320