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Vogt, Naomi (2020) Extreme performances that lived inside a book. Art Journal . pp. 97-100. ISSN 0004-3249
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00043249.2020.1767964
Abstract
Transcribing physical performance into words can feel like a struggle, especially when the performances actively resist intellectual capture. How does one do justice in print to something that is extreme and refuses to stand still? In Unlimited Action: The Performance of Extremity in the 1970s, Dominic Johnson is careful not to shackle unruly art. Instead he lets it loose on cultural history. The latter is transformed as the book confronts unorthodox, little-studied works without attempting to tame them. Indeed, extreme actions transfigure existing models of witness, including Johnson’s own writing, in which this idea emerges. The book becomes an object lesson unto itself, starting with the cover. Reading this work in academic and public spaces means repeatedly brandishing a bright orange object bearing the large image of two naked men: the Kipper Kids, their prosthetic-nosed faces chalk white, their elastic strap–framed buttocks center page. People notice. And I notice that I repeatedly resist the urge to reposition myself to make this object discreet.
Item Type: | Book Review | ||||||
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Subjects: | N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History of Art | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Art Journal | ||||||
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | ||||||
ISSN: | 0004-3249 | ||||||
Book Title: | Unlimited Action : The Performance of Extremity in the 1970s | ||||||
Official Date: | 25 September 2020 | ||||||
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Page Range: | pp. 97-100 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/00043249.2020.1767964 | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Art Journal on 25/09/2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00043249.2020.1767964 | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 July 2020 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 25 March 2022 |
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