Not to Play with Dead Things

by Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Patricia Brignone, Catherine Wood

From its Futurist and Dadaist origins to the body art of the 1970s and more recent developments in the genre, the history of Performance art is oriented around a fairly consistent set of elements: movements, speech, the body, impermanence, audience participation. But artists have also produced installations and performative objects for their performances, whose status becomes ambiguous once the action is over. Not to Play with Dead Things pays overdue...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3037640715
• ISBN13: 9783037640715
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Jrp Ringier
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.7"