Description
- This book takes a new critical approach to the concept of performance as it operates in performance studies and art theory.
- It constructs a critical concept of performance by understanding it as autonomous art in the tradition of German aesthetics and critical theory.
- This book is a philosophically informed analysis of the dance and performance practices from the 1960s through the philosophies of Karl Marx, John Dewey, Immanuel Kant, Theodor Adorno and Gilles Deleuze.
- It approaches neo-avant-garde art performance practices from a perspective of critical theory and German aesthetics.
About the Author
Josefine Wikstroem is Associate Professor of Dance Theory at Stockholm University of the Arts.
Book Information
ISBN 9780367615475
Author Josefine Wikstroem
Format Paperback
Page Count 170
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 235g