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Work Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-one to Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-three by Rainer, Yvonne, 1934- is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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It goes without saying that a dance is a dance and a book about dance is a book. Though they may meet at the intersection of Art and Good Intentions, I find myself greedy. I have a longstanding infatuation with language, a not-easily assailed conviction that it, above all else, offers a key to clarity. Not that it can replace experience, but rather holds a mirror to our experience, gives us distance when we need it. So here I am, in a sense, trying to replace my performances with a book, greedily pushing language to clarify what already was clear in other terms. But, alas, gone. This has seemed one good reason to compile a book out of the remains of my performances, letting the language fall where it may. Let it be said She usually makes performances and has also made a book. Yvonne Rainer Forty-five years after its publication, Primary Information brings Yvonne Rainers classic book back into print in an exact facsimile.In 1974, Yvonne Rainer published Work 196173 , an illustrated catalog of her performance works up to that point. In these years, as the art world turned toward minimalism, Rainer and her Judson Dance Theater colleagues were engaged in a parallel, and equally radical

Author

Rainer, Yvonne, 1934-

Publisher

Halifax, N.S.: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design ; New York: New York University Press

Published

1974

Language

EN

ISBN

9780919616042

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, Lifestyle