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As one of the people who defined punk's protest art in the 1970s
and 1980s, Gee Vaucher (b. 1945) deserves to be much better-known.
She produced confrontational album covers for the legendary
anarchist band Crass and later went on to do the same for Northern
indie legends the Charlatans, among others. More recently, her work
was recognised the day after Donald Trump's 2016 election victory,
when the front page of the Daily Mirror ran her 1989 painting Oh
America, which shows the Statue of Liberty, head in hands. This is
the first book to critically assess an extensive range of Vaucher's
work. It examines her unique position connecting avant-garde art
movements, counterculture, punk and even contemporary street art.
While Vaucher rejects all 'isms', her work offers a unique take on
the history of feminist art. -- .
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Marina Abramović
(Hardcover)
Karen Archey, Adrian Heathield, Svetlana Racanović, Andrea Tarsia, Devin Zuber
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R709
Discovery Miles 7 090
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Over the past half century, Marina Abramović has earned worldwide
acclaim as a pioneer of performance art. This handsome new book
records the first UK exhibition to include works from her entire
career. Re-performances of some of her best-known and most radical
works appear alongside new works created especially for the
exhibition. An augmented reality app for iOS and Android enables
readers to watch films of Abramović’s original performances
while reading the book. An essential purchase for all followers of
Abramović’s extraordinary 50-year career, this important new
publication brings expert voices into the debate that her
ground-breaking work engenders. How far should an artist push
herself in pursuit of her work? What role does the audience play in
creating a performance? How can performance art outlive the moment
in which it takes place?
The French artist Gil J Wolman (1929-1995) was a pioneer in
researching the intersection and alteration of visual and textual
languages. This show, the first monographic exhibition of Wolman's
work ever held in Spain, consists of about 250 works and documents,
from L'Anticoncept (1951) to Voir de memoire (1995). It includes
the artist's most important and fertile pieces, some of them never
before exhibited. In coedition with Serralves Foundation
Antonin Artaud is probably the single greatest force on the
contemporary stage. In this harrowing play, Charles Marowitz draws
on exclusive material obtained from friends and confidantes,
depicting a series of imaginary scenes based upon the true
incidents of Artaud's life and his incarceration as a madman in the
asylum at Rodez. Using Artaud's own Theatre of Cruelty techniques
Marowitz tells what is perhaps the cruelest story of all: the way
in which society methodically destroys the maverick artist who
attempts to defy it. Also included in this edition are exclusive
interviews with leading avant-garde figures such as Roger Blin and
Arthur Adamov as well as first-hand testimony from Artaud's own
psychiatrist, Dr Gaston Ferdiere and Artaud's sister, Marie-Ange
Malaussena.
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