Unlimited Action: The Performance of Extremity in the 1970s

by Domonic Johnson

Book Overview

Unlimited action concerns the limits imposed upon art and life, and the means by which artists have exposed, refused, or otherwise reshaped the horizon of aesthetics and of the practice of art, by way of performance art. It examines the 'performance of extremity' as practices at the limits of the histories of performance and art, in performance art's most fertile and prescient decade, the 1970s. Dominic Johnson recounts and analyses game-changing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526135515
• ISBN13: 9781526135513
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"