Corpus delecti : performance of the Americas
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Corpus delecti : performance of the Americas
Routledge, 2000
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Corpus delecti : performance art of the Americas
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Subtitle on some copies: performance art of the Americas
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The most comprehensive volume on performance art from the Americas to have appeared in English, Corpus Delecti is a unique collection of historical and critical studies of contemporary Latin performance. Drawing on live art from the 1960s to the present day, these fascinating essays explore the impact of Latin American politics, popular culture and syncretic religions on Latin performance.
Including contributions by artists as well as scholars, Fusco's collection bridges the theory/practice divide and discusses a wide variety of genres. Among them are:
* body art
* carpa
* vaudeville
* staged political protest
* tropicalist musical comedies
* contemporary Venezuelan performance art
* the Chicano Art movement
* queer Latino performance
The essays demonstrate how specific social and historical contexts have shaped Latin American performance. They also show how those factors have affected the choices artists make, and how their work draw upon and respond to their environment.
Table of Contents
List of illustrations, Introduction: Latin American Performance and the Reconquista of Civil Space, Part I Heterotopic, Homoerotic, Hyper-Exotic Cabarets The Melodramatic Seductions of Eva Peron, Part II Ritualizing the Body Politic Henny-Penny Piano Destruction Concert, Part III Stepping Toward An Oppositional Public Sphere Sunday, July 25, 1965, Index
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