Title

Arte [no es] vida : actions by artists of the Americas 1960-2000 / El Museo del Barrio ; edited by Deborah Cullen ; with texts by Maris Bustamante ... [et al.].

Author

Museo del Barrio (New York, N.Y.)

Publication

New York : El Museo Del Barrio, [2008?]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bustamante, Maris.
• Cullen, Deborah.

Description

317 p. : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.

Alternative Title

• Actions by artists of the Americas 1960-2000
• Art is not life
• Arte vida : actions by artists of the Americas 1960-2000

Subjects

• Performance art > Latin America > 20th century
• Arts, Latin American > 20th century

Note

• Title appears on title page as Arte [equal sign with a slash through it] vida.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and artist index.

Language (note)

• English and Spanish texts.

Contents

Foreword and Acknowledgements / Julian Zugazagoitia -- Arte [is not equal to] Vida: An Introduction to the Project / Deborah Cullen -- A Chronology of Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000 / Deborah Cullen -- Points East, West, and South: Actions in New York, California, and Puerto Rico / Deborah Cullen -- Action Art in Argentina from 1960: The Body (Ex)posed / Ana Longoni -- Naked Man, Flaming Chickens: A Brief History of Brazilian Performance Art / Claudia Calirman -- An Art of Nooks: Notes on Non-Objectual Experiences in Venezuela / Gabriela Rangel -- Conditions, Roads, and Genealogies of Mexican Conceptualism, 1921-1993 / Moris Bustamante -- Fragmented Corpus: Actions in Lima, 1966-2000 / Sharon Lerner Rizo-Patron and Jorge Villacorta Chavez -- Chilean Art and Action: Subverting Order, Performing Change / Robert Neustadt -- A Cuban Fight Against the Demons (of Oblivion) / Elvis Fuentes -- The Body as Instrument of Expression: Action Art in the Dominican Republic / Sayuri Guzman -- Performance and Action Work in Central America, 1960-2000: A Political and Aesthetic Choice / Virginia Perez-Ratton -- Marla Teresa Hincopie: Action, Corporeality, and the Realm of the Feminine in Colombia / Maria Iovino.

ISBN

• 9781882454259
• 1882454251

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries