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Yvonne Rainer: The Mind Is a Muscle

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In 1968, toward the end of a decade that witnessed civil rights protests, the escalation of the war in Vietnam and an expanded notion of artistic practice, Yvonne Rainer presented her evening-length work, The Mind is a Muscle, a multipart performance for seven dancers interspersed with film and text. Catherine Wood examines the political and media context in which Rainer chose to use the dance-theatre situation and analyses her radical approach to image-making in live form. For Wood, The Mind is a Muscle proposed a new model of artwork that presents a dynamic tension between materiality and idea.

Language: English

Pages: 118

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Afterall Books

Release: December 01, 2007

ISBN: 1846380375

ISBN 13: 9781846380372

Yvonne Rainer: The Mind Is a Muscle

3.9/5 ( ratings)

In 1968, toward the end of a decade that witnessed civil rights protests, the escalation of the war in Vietnam and an expanded notion of artistic practice, Yvonne Rainer presented her evening-length work, The Mind is a Muscle, a multipart performance for seven dancers interspersed with film and text. Catherine Wood examines the political and media context in which Rainer chose to use the dance-theatre situation and analyses her radical approach to image-making in live form. For Wood, The Mind is a Muscle proposed a new model of artwork that presents a dynamic tension between materiality and idea.

Language: English

Pages: 118

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Afterall Books

Release: December 01, 2007

ISBN: 1846380375

ISBN 13: 9781846380372

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