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Format: 1 online resource (420 p.) : , 74 illustrations, 2 figures

ISBN: 9780822391227

Content: Since the 1970s, the performance and conceptual artist Suzanne Lacy has explored women’s lives and experiences, as well as race, ethnicity, aging, economic disparities, and violence, through her pioneering community-based art. Combining aesthetics and politics, and often collaborating with other artists and community organizations, she has staged large-scale public art projects, sometimes involving hundreds of participants. Lacy has consistently written about her work: planning, describing, and analyzing it; advocating socially engaged art practices; theorizing the relationship between art and social intervention; and questioning the boundaries separating high art from popular participation. By bringing together thirty texts that Lacy has written since 1974, Leaving Art offers an intimate look at the development of feminist, conceptual, and performance art since those movements’ formative years. In the introduction, the art historian Moira Roth provides a helpful overview of Lacy’s art and writing, which in the afterword the cultural theorist Kerstin Mey situates in relation to contemporary public art practices.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Preface -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction. Suzanne Lacy -- , Introduction -- , 1. Prostitution Notes (1974) -- , 2. Falling Apart (1980) -- , 3. Body Contract (1974) -- , Photo Essay. Learn Where the Meat Comes From (1976) -- , 4. Cinderella in a Dragster (1977) -- , 5. The Bag Lady: On Memory (1982) -- , 6. The Life and Times of Donaldina Cameron (1978) -- , 7. In Mourning and In Rage (With Analysis Aforethought) (1978) -- , 8. Learning to Look -- , 9. Feminist Artists -- , 10. Time, Bones, and Art -- , Introduction -- , 11. Broomsticks and Banners -- , 12. The Greening of California Performance -- , 13. Made for TV -- , 14. Battle of New Orleans (1980) -- , 15. Beneath the Seams (1982) -- , 16. In the Shadows -- , 17. Political Performance Art -- , Introduction -- , 18. The Name of the Game (1991) -- , 19. Debated Territory -- , 20. Affinities -- , 21. Love, Cancer, Memory -- , 22. Cancer Notes -- , 23. What It Takes -- , Introduction -- , 24. The Skin of Memory/La Piel de la Memoria -- , 25. Seeking an American Identity -- , 26. Cop in the Head, Cop in the Street (2006) -- , 27. Having It Good -- , 28. Hard Work in a Working- Class Town (2006) -- , 29. Tracing Allan Kaprow (2007) -- , Afterword: Interceptions and Intension -- , Appendix: Chronology and Selected Performances and Installations -- , Notes -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822391227

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822391227

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822391227