Choreography, Visual Art and Experimental Composition 1950s-1970s Brannigan Erin
This book traces the history of engagements between dance and the visual arts in the mid-twentieth century, and provides a backdrop for the emerging field of contemporary, intermedial art…
Specifikacia Choreography, Visual Art and Experimental Composition 1950s-1970s Brannigan Erin
This book traces the history of engagements between dance and the visual arts in the mid-twentieth century, and provides a backdrop for the emerging field of contemporary, intermedial art practice.Exploring the disciplinary identity of dance in dialogue with the visual arts, this book unpacks how compositional methods that were dance-based informed visual art contexts. The book provokes fresh consideration of the entangled relationship between, and historiographic significance of, visual arts and dance by exploring movements in history that dance has been traditionally mapped to (Neo-Avant Garde, Neo-Dada, Conceptual art, Postmodernism and Performance Art) and the specific practices and innovations from key people in the field (like John Cage, Anna Halprin and Robert Rauschenberg). This book also employs a series of historical and critical case studies which show how