A Feast of Astonishments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Feast of Astonishments write by Lisa G. Corrin. This book was released on 2016. A Feast of Astonishments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde, 1960s-1980s,' Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, January 16-July 17, 2016; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, September 8-December 10, 2016; [and] Museum der Moderne Salzburg, March 4-June 18, 2017"--Title page verso.
William Blake and the Age of Aquarius
William Blake and the Age of Aquarius - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook William Blake and the Age of Aquarius write by Stephen F. Eisenman. This book was released on 2017-10-17. William Blake and the Age of Aquarius available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. William Blake and the Age of Aquarius / by Stephen F. Eisenman -- Prophets, madmen, and millenarians: Blake and the (counter)culture of the 1790s / by Mark Crosby -- William Blake on the West Coast / Elizabeth Ferrell -- William Blake and art against surveillance / Jacob Henry Leveton -- Building Golgonooza in the Age of Aquarius / John Murphy -- "My teacher in all things": Sendak, Blake, and the visual language of childhood / Mark Crosby -- Blake then and now / W.J.T. Mitchell
Topless Cellist
Topless Cellist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Topless Cellist write by Joan Rothfuss. This book was released on 2017-03-03. Topless Cellist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first book to explore the extraordinary career of musician and performance artist Charlotte Moorman, whose work combined classical rigor, avant-garde experiment, and madcap daring. The Juilliard-trained cellist Charlotte Moorman sat nude behind a cello of carved ice, performed while dangling from helium-filled balloons, and deployed an array of instruments on The Mike Douglas Show that included her cello, a whistle, a cap gun, a gong, and a belch. She did a striptease while playing Bach in Nam June Paik's Sonata for Adults Only. In the 1960s, Moorman (1933–1991) became famous for her madcap (and often unclothed) performance antics; less famous but more significant is Moorman's transformative influence on contemporary performance practice—and her dedication to the idea that avant-garde art should reach the widest possible audience. In Topless Cellist, the first book to explore Moorman's life and work, Joan Rothfuss rediscovers, and recovers, the legacy of an extraordinary American artist. Moorman's arrest in 1967 for performing topless made her a water-cooler conversation-starter, but before her tabloid fame she was a star of the avant-garde performance circuit, with a repertoire of pieces by, among others, Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, John Cage, and Paik, her main artistic partner. Moorman invented a new mode of performance that combined classical rigor, jazz improvisation, and avant-garde experiment—informed by intuition, daring, and love of spectacle. Moorman's annual festival of the avant-garde offered the public a lively sampler of contemporary art in performance, music, dance, poetry, film, and other media. Rothfuss chronicles Moorman's life from her youth in Little Rock, Arkansas (where she was “Miss City Beautiful” of 1952) through her career in New York's avant-garde to her death from breast cancer in 1991. (Typically, she approached her treatment as if it were a performance.) Deeply researched and profusely illustrated, Topless Cellist offers a fascinating, sometimes heartbreaking, often hilarious story of an artist whose importance was more than the sum of her performances.
Experimentalism Otherwise
Experimentalism Otherwise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Experimentalism Otherwise write by Benjamin Piekut. This book was released on 2011-04-04. Experimentalism Otherwise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A book about the links between avant garde music and the art scene in New York City in the 1960s. John Cage and Iggy Pop, together at last.
Experimentalism Otherwise
Experimentalism Otherwise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Experimentalism Otherwise write by Benjamin Piekut. This book was released on 2011-04-04. Experimentalism Otherwise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Experimental Otherwise, Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by "experimental" in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time—New York City, 1964—Piekut examines five disparate events: the New York Philharmonic’s disastrous performance of John Cage’s Atlas Eclipticalis; Henry Flynt’s demonstrations against the downtown avant-garde; Charlotte Moorman’s Avant Garde Festival; the founding of the Jazz Composers Guild; and the emergence of Iggy Pop. Drawing together a colorful array of personalities, Piekut argues that each of these examples points to a failure and marks a limit or boundary of canonical experimentalism. What emerges from these marginal moments is an accurate picture of the avant-garde, not as a style or genre, but as a network defined by disagreements, struggles, and exclusions.
