It's not personal : post 60s body art and performance / Susan Best.

"How does something as potent and evocative as the body become a relatively neutral artistic material? From the 1960s, much body art and performance conformed to the anti-expressive ethos of minimalism and conceptualism, whilst still using the compelling human form. But how is this strange mism...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Best, Susan (Author)
Other title:It is not personal.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. 'Utterly free of human associations': Impersonality in late-modern and contemporary art
  • 3. The self, without autobiography: from Nauman to Ulman
  • 4. Cool intimacy: Paris, couples and duos
  • 5. 'Collective effervescence': group formation from fusion to virtual togetherness
  • 6. Conclusion.