Histories and Practices of Live Art - Hardcover

Heddon, Deirdre; Klein, Jennie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230229735 ISBN 13: 9780230229730

Publisher: Red Globe Press, 2012

Synopsis

In this dynamic collection a team of experts map the development of Live Art culturally, thematically and historically. Supported with examples from around the world, the text engages with a number of key practices, asking what these practices do and how they can be contextualised and understood.

About this title

About the Author:

DEIRDRE HEDDON is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. She has published extensively in the field of contemporary performance practice and is the co-editor, with Jennie Klein and Nikki Milican, of The National Review of Live Art: 1979-2010, a personal history (New Moves International, 2010). Her monograph, Autobiography and Performance was published in 2008, and Devising Performance: A Critical History in 2005 (both Palgrave). 
 
JENNIE KLEIN is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at Ohio University, USA. She is the editor of Letters from Linda M. Montano (Routledge, 2005), the co-curator (Rebecca McGrew) of The 21st Century Odyssey Part II: The Work of Barbara T. Smith (2005), and the co-editor (Myrel Chernick) of The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art (Demeter Press, 2011). She is a contributing editor for PAJ, Genders, and Art Papers.

Review:

'A comprehensive treatment of the key issues in the history of performance practice. This book provides a much needed overview of the field as it has developed over the last half century. Heddon and Klein are to be congratulated for having instigated and compiled a coherent anthology made of autonomous and yet mutually enhancing components.' - Laurie Beth Clark, University of Wisconsin, USA

About this edition

• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0230229735
• ISBN 13: 9780230229730
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248