The Concrete Body

Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci

Elise Archias

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English

Yale University Press
03 January 2017

Art & design styles: from c 1960; Performance art

Offering an incisive rejoinder to traditional histories of modernism and postmodernism, this original book examines the 1960s performance work of three New York artists who adapted modernist approaches to form for the medium of the human body. Finding parallels between the tactility of a drip of paint and a body’s reflexive movements, Elise Archias argues convincingly that Yvonne Rainer (b. 1934), Carolee Schneemann (b. 1939), and Vito Acconci (b. 1940) forged a dialogue between modernist aesthetics and their own artistic community’s embrace of all things ordinary through work that explored the abstraction born of the body’s materiality. Rainer’s task-like dances, Schneemann’s sensuous appropriations of popular entertainment, and Acconci’s behaviorist-inflected tests highlight the body’s unintended movements as vital reminders of embodied struggle amid the constraining structures in contemporary culture. Archias also draws compelling comparisons between embodiment as performed in the work of these three artists and in the sit-ins and other nonviolent protests of the era.

By: Elise Archias
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 1.043kg
ISBN: 9780300217971
ISBN 10: 0300217978
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 03 January 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elise Archias is assistant professor of art history at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Reviews for The Concrete Body: Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci

The Concrete Body is a refreshing, original, and beautifully written rethinking of how we should understand performance practices of the 1960s. Elise Archias's reading of adaptation and desire, in particular, may well become the best thing written on Vito Acconci to date. -Eve Meltzer, New York University -- Eve Meltzer In its most thrilling and persuasive moments, The Concrete Body brings together the performance practices under study and other sorts of embodiment, from the sit-ins and marches of the era to the less often noticed forms-the turned backs, the slouched shoulders, the ways in which the sheer weight of the human body makes itself felt to another. -Eve Meltzer, New York University -- Eve Meltzer Archias wisely brings together three important figures from the early history of performance art, revealing how they used the human body to understand the sexual revolution, psychological debates, and even consumer capitalism itself. -Joshua Shannon, University of Maryland -- Joshua Shannon