Joan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things

by Joan Jonas

Born in New York in 1936, Joan Jonas has been a towering figure in postwar Conceptual and experimental Performance art since the 1960s, when she began her pioneering exploration of gender and identity through a combination of myth, choreography and new media. In 2007, she was a visiting professor at the world famous Ratti Foundation in Como, Italy. While there, she turned to a text by art historian Aby Warburg (whose writings on Hopi imagery and ritual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0944521541
• ISBN13: 9780944521540
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Dia Art Foundation
• Length: 70 Pages