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The Object of Performance : The American Avant-Garde since 1970
The Object of Performance The American AvantGarde since 1970 Author:Henry M. Sayre Sayre defines for the first time the apparently diffuse avant-garde art of the past two decades in terms of its distinctly postmodern concerns. The range of arts discussed here encompasses contemporary dance, photography, oral poetics, performance art, and earthworks. — "Sayre has written one of the most intelligent, sensible, and readable accoun... more »ts of the tenents of Postmodern artmaking published to date."--Jeff Abell, New Art Examiner
"No one can read The Object of Performance without gaining a far better idea than before of what has happened to art, and, in some measure, why. . . . I find this book consistently illuminating."--Arthur C. Danto« less