'A Bigger Splash will take a new look at the dynamic relationship between performance and painting from 1950 to the present day. Taking its title from David Hockney’s iconic 1967 image of a Californian swimming pool and Jack Hazan’s docu-fiction film about Hockney’s life, it will bring together a range of key works by artists including Yves Klein, Jackson Pollock, Cindy Sherman and Karen Kilimnik. Moving through half a century of work in painting, video and photography, and including archival and documentary material, this book will show how performance art has challenged and energised the medium of painting for successive generations. The book will contain three essays: the evolution of contemporary practice via a key period of experiment in the 1960s –70s; a consideration of the issue of pictorial space in painting with reference to history; and an examination of how the theoretical concept of "performativity" relates to the issues played out within that high period of "performance art".' —extracted from the publisher's website
With artist biographies, bibliography and list of exhibited works.
Onsite
English
group exhibition,  performance art,  painting
2012
128
9781849760201
1
catalogue
A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance

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