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Book SynopsisDEIRDRE HEDDON is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. She has published extensively in the field of contemporary performance practice and is the co-editor, with Jennie Klein and Nikki Milican, ofThe National Review of Live Art: 1979-2010, a personal history(New Moves International, 2010). Her monograph,Autobiography and Performancewas published in 2008, andDevising Performance: A Critical Historyin 2005 (both Palgrave). JENNIE KLEIN is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at Ohio University, USA. She is the editor ofLetters from Linda M. Montano(Routledge, 2005), the co-curator (Rebecca McGrew) ofThe 21st Century Odyssey Part II: The Work of Barbara T. Smith(2005), and the co-editor (Myrel Chernick) ofThe M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art(Demeter Press, 2011). She is a contributing editor forPAJ, Genders, and Art Papers.
Trade Review'A comprehensive treatment of the key issues in the history of performance practice. This book provides a much needed overview of the field as it has developed over the last half century. Heddon and Klein are to be congratulated for having instigated and compiled a coherent anthology made of autonomous and yet mutually enhancing components.' - Laurie Beth Clark, University of Wisconsin, USA
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Writing Histories and Practices of Live Art; D.Heddon Developing Live Art; J.Klein The Time of Live Art; B.Hoffman Art, Meeting and Encounter: The Art of Action in Great Britain; R.Hunter & J.B.Hunter Site: Between Ground and Groundlessness; S.Hodge & C.Turner Intimacy and Risk in Live Art; D.Johnson All Together Now: Performance and Collaboration; C.Macdonald The Politics of Live Art; D.Heddon Bibliography Index.
