Beyond the Happening

Beyond the Happening

by Catherine SpencerMarsha Meskimmon and Amelia Jones
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/06/2020

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Beyond the Happening uncovers the heterogeneous, uniquely interdisciplinary performance-based works that emerged in the aftermath of the early Happenings. By the mid-1960s Happenings were widely declared outmoded or even ‘dead’, but this book reveals how many practitioners continued to work with the form during the late 1960s and 1970s, developing it into a vehicle for studying interpersonal communication that simultaneously deployed and questioned contemporary sociology and psychology. Focussing on the artists Allan Kaprow, Marta Minujín, Carolee Schneemann and Lea Lublin, it charts how they revised and retooled the premises of the Happening within a wider network of dynamic international activity. The resulting performances directly intervened in the wider discourse of communication studies, as it manifested in the politics of countercultural dropout, soft power and cultural diplomacy, alternative pedagogies, sociological art and feminist consciousness-raising.

ISBN:
9781526144478
9781526144478
Category:
History of art / art & design styles
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-06-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Manchester University Press

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