A bigger splash : painting after performance / edited by Catherine Wood ; with contributions by Eda Čufer, Isabella Maidment, Fiontán Moran, Dieter Roelstraete and Catherine Woods.
Contributor(s): Wood, Catherine [editor, writer of added commentary]
| Čufer, Eda [writer of added commentary] | Roelstraete, Dieter [writer of added commentary] | Maidment, Isabella [writer of added commentary] | Moran, Fiontań [writer of added commentary] | Tate Modern (Gallery) [host institution].
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BookPublisher: London : Tate Publishing, 2012Description: 127 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1849760209 (paperback); 9781849760201.Subject(s): Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions | Painting, Modern -- 21st century -- Exhibitions | Performance art -- 20th century -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 709.04074 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 709.04074 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00196471 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"A Bigger Splash" will take a new look at the dynamic relationship between performance and painting from 1950 to the present day. Taking its title from David Hockney's iconic 1967 image of a Californian swimming pool and Jack Hazan's docu-fiction film about Hockney's life, it will bring together a range of key works by artists including Yves Klein, Jackson Pollock, Cindy Sherman and Karen Kilimnik. Moving through half a century of work in painting, video and photography, and including archival and documentary material, this book will show how performance art has challenged and energised the medium of painting for successive generations. The book will contain three essays: the evolution of contemporary practice via a key period of experiment in the 1960s-70s; a consideration of the issue of pictorial space in painting with reference to history; and an examination of how the theoretical concept of 'performativity' relates to the issues played out within that high period of 'performance art'. By offering readers new ways of looking at some familiar works in Tate's Collection, and yet also bringing to light recent and new works that experiment with performance and painting in a variety of ways, this promises to be one the most authorative and dynamic studies of the subject yet published.thin that high period of 'performance art'. By offering readers new ways of looking at some familiar works in Tate's Collection, and yet also bringing to light recent and new works that experiment with performance and painting in a variety of ways, this promises to be one the most authorative and dynamic studies of the subject yet published.thin that high period of 'performance art'. By offering readers new ways of looking at some familiar works in Tate's Collection, and yet also bringing to light recent and new works that experiment with performance and painting in a variety of ways, this promises to be one the most authorative and dynamic studies of the subject yet published.thin that high period of 'performance art'. By offering readers new ways of looking at some familiar works in Tate's Collection, and yet also bringing to light recent and new works that experiment with performance and painting in a variety of ways, this promises to be one the most authorative and dynamic studies of the subject yet published.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Painting in the shape of a house' / Catherine Wood -- Don't / Eda Čufer -- Painting (the threshold of the visible world) / Dieter Roelstraete -- Artist Biographies / Isabella Maidment and Fiontán Moran.
"This exhibition will take a new look at the dynamic relationship between performance and painting since 1950. Contrasting key paintings by Jackson Pollock and David Hockney, the exhibition considers two different approaches to the idea of the canvas as an arena in which to act: one gestural, the other one theatrical. The paintings of the Vienna Actionists or the Shooting Pictures of Niki de St Phalle will be re-presented within the performance context that they were made, and juxtaposed with works by artists such as Cindy Sherman or Jack Smith that used the face and body as a surface, often using make-up in work dealing with gender role-play. The exhibition proposes a new way of looking at the work of a number of younger artists whose approach to painting is energised by these diverse historical sources, drawing upon action painting, drag and the idea of the stage set" - Tate website.