No Innocent Bystanders: Performance Art and Audience

by Frazer Ward

Book Overview

At a moment when performance art and performance generally are at the center of the international art world, Frazer Ward offers us insightful readings of major performance pieces by the likes of Acconci, Burden, Abramovic, and Hsieh, and confronts the twisting and troubled relationship that performance art has had with the spectator and the public sphere. Ward contends that the ethical challenges with which performance art confronts its viewers speak...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611683351
• ISBN13: 9781611683356
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"