Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within contemporary art.
Engaging with issues of voice, embodiment, power, and projection, the case studies assembled in this volume span a range of media from painting, sculpture, and photography to installation, performance, architecture, and video. Importantly, they both examine and enact ventriloqual practices, and do so as a means of interrogating and performatively bearing out contemporary conceptions of authorship, subjectivity, and performance. Put otherwise, the chapters in this book oscillate seamlessly between art history, theory, and criticism through both analytical and performative means. Across twelve essays on ventriloquism in contemporary art, the authors, who are curators, historians, and artists, shine light on this outdated practice, repositioning it as a conspicuous and meaningful trend within a range of artistic practices today.
This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, media studies, performance, museum/curatorial studies, and theater.
| ISBN: | 9781032304762 |
| Publication date: | 31st May 2023 |
| Author: | Jennie Hirsh, Isabelle Loring Wallace |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 298 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies |
| Genres: |
The arts: general topics Performance art Puppetry, miniature and toy theatre Museology and heritage studies History of art Theatre studies |
Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within contemporary art.
Engaging with issues of voice, embodiment, power, and projection, the case studies assembled in this volume span a range of media from painting, sculpture, and photography to installation, performance, architecture, and video. Importantly, they both examine and enact ventriloqual practices, and do so as a means of interrogating and performatively bearing out contemporary conceptions of authorship, subjectivity, and performance. Put otherwise, the chapters in this book oscillate seamlessly between art history, theory, and criticism through both analytical and performative means. Across twelve essays on ventriloquism in contemporary art, the authors, who are curators, historians, and artists, shine light on this outdated practice, repositioning it as a conspicuous and meaningful trend within a range of artistic practices today.
This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, media studies, performance, museum/curatorial studies, and theater.
Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art features in the following genres: The arts: general topics, Performance art, Puppetry, miniature and toy theatre, Museology and heritage studies, History of art, Theatre studies
Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art is available in Paperback, Hardback
Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art was written by Jennie Hirsh, Isabelle Loring Wallace and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art has 298 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies series
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