Sayre, Henry M.,  1948- <br/><br/>
The object of performance :  the American avant-garde since 1970 / 
Henry M. Sayre. 
 - xvi, 308 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations (some colour) ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>The object of performance -- the rhetoric of the pose: Photography and the portrait as performance -- Feminism and the art of the seventies -- Tracing dance: Collaboration and the New Gesamtkunstwerk -- Three performances: Laurie Anderson, Eleanor Antin, and Carolee Schneemann -- Narrative and the poetics of the vernacular -- Landscape and the postmodern sublime -- Critical performacne: the example of Roland Barthes. 
<br/><br/> "Sayre defines for the first time the apparently diffuse avant-garde art of the past two decades in terms of its distinctly postmodern concerns. The range of arts discussed here encompasses contemporary dance, photography, oral poetics, performance art, and earthworks. "Sayre has written one of the most intelligent, sensible, and readable accounts of the tenents of Postmodern artmaking published to date."--Jeff Abell, New Art Examiner "No one can read The Object of Performance without gaining a far better idea than before of what has happened to art, and, in some measure, why. . . . I find this book consistently illuminating."--Arthur C. Danto"--Publisher description. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0226735575 9780226735573 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>88027481 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Performance art--United States
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NX504  / .S29 1989 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>700.973