A Primer of Happenings & Time/space Art

A Primer of Happenings & Time/space Art
Author: Al Hansen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1965
Genre: Art
ISBN:

An oral-visual account of the origin and development of Happenings. Artists discussed include Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, Carolee Schneemann, Allan Kaprow, Wolf Vostell, Nam June Paik, Claes Oldenburg, Meredith Monk, Jackson Mac Low, Yvonne Rainer, John Cage, etc.

Off Limits

Off Limits
Author: Simon Anderson
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1999
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780813526096

By constantly challenging one another to take art "Off Limits," George Brecht, Geoffrey Hendricks, Allan Kaprow, Roy Lichtenstein, Lucas Samaras, George Segal, Robert Watts, and Robert Whitman defied the art world, bringing Abstract Expressionism to a screeching halt and setting the stage for the art of the rest of the century. Off Limits accompanies a major exhibition of the same title at The Newark Museum, February 18 - May 16, 1999.

McLuhan in Space

McLuhan in Space
Author: Richard Cavell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780802086587

Demonstrates how McLuhan extended insights derived from advances in physics and artistic experimentation into a theory of acoustic space which he then used to challenge the assumptions of visual space that had been produced through print culture.

Background Noise, Second Edition

Background Noise, Second Edition
Author: Brandon LaBelle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2015-01-29
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1628923520

"Follows the development of sound as an artistic medium and illustrates how sound is put to use within modes of composition, installation, and performance"--

Off Sites

Off Sites
Author: Bertie Ferdman
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2018-07-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0809334712

Honorable Mention, ATHE's 2018 Outstanding Book Award Contextualizing the techniques and methods of the incredibly rich and vital genre of site-specific performance, author Bertie Ferdman traces the evolution of that term. Originally used for experimental staging practices and then later also for engaged situational events, site-specific is no longer sufficient for the genre’s many contemporary variations. Using the term off-site, Ferdman illustrates five distinct ways artists have challenged the disciplinary framework of site-specific theatre: blurring the traditional boundaries between the fictional and the real; changing how the audience and actor interact with each other and whether they are physically together or apart; fabricating sites from physically bound, conceptually constructed, or virtual spaces; staging live situations in real/nonreal and often mediated encounters; and challenging our preconceived notions of time and space. Tracing the genealogy of site-based work through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Ferdman outlines the theoretical groundwork for her study in the introduction. Individual chapters focus on distinct types of off-sites—the interdisciplinary discourse of disciplinary sites; the spaces of audience engagement with spectator sites; the dislocation of time for temporal sites; and the historiographical spaces of mapping for urban sites. Ferdman examines site-based work being done in the Americas by contemporary companies and artists experimenting with new forms and practices for site-driven theatre. Key productions discussed include Private Moment by David Levine, Geyser Land by Mary Ellen Strom and Ann Carlson, Jim Findlay’s Dream of the Red Chamber, and Lola Arias’ Mi Vida Después.

Democracy's Body

Democracy's Body
Author: Sally Banes
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1993
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780822313991

Judson Dance Theater involved such collaborators as Merce Cunningham, Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, Carolee Schneemann, Trisha Brown, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, et al.

Critical Mass

Critical Mass
Author: Mead Art Museum (Amherst College)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780813533032

Description: Puts New Jersey at the center of key art movements during the sixties

Nothing and Everything - The Influence of Buddhism on the American Avant Garde

Nothing and Everything - The Influence of Buddhism on the American Avant Garde
Author: Ellen Pearlman
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2012-04-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1583943633

In America in the late 1950s and early 60s, the world—and life itself—became a legitimate artist’s tool, aligning with Zen Buddhism’s emphasis on “enlightenment at any moment” and living in the now. Simultaneously and independently, parallel movements were occurring in Japan, as artists there, too, strove to break down artistic boundaries. Nothing and Everything brings these heady times into focus. Author Ellen Pearlman meticulously traces the spread of Buddhist ideas into the art world through the classes of legendary scholar D. T. Suzuki as well as those of his most famous student, composer and teacher John Cage, from whose teachings sprouted the art movement Fluxus and the “happenings” of the 1960s. Pearlman details the interaction of these American artists with the Japanese Hi Red Center and the multi-installation group Gutai. Back in New York, abstract-expressionist artists founded The Club, which held lectures on Zen and featured Japan’s first abstract painter, Saburo Hasegawa. And in the literary world, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg were using Buddhism in their search for new forms and visions of their own. These multiple journeys led to startling breakthroughs in artistic and literary style—and influenced an entire generation. Filled with rare photographs and groundbreaking primary source material, Nothing and Everything is the definitive history of this pivotal time for the American arts. About the Imprint: EVOLVER EDITIONS promotes a new counterculture that recognizes humanity's visionary potential and takes tangible, pragmatic steps to realize it. EVOLVER EDITIONS explores the dynamics of personal, collective, and global change from a wide range of perspectives. EVOLVER EDITIONS is an imprint of North Atlantic Books and is produced in collaboration with Evolver, LLC.