Long Suffering : American Endurance Art as Prophetic Witness /

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"Long Sufferingproductively links avant-garde performance practices with religious histories in the United States, setting contemporary performances of endurance art within a broader context of prophetic religious discourse in the United States. Its focus is on the work of Ron Athey, Linda Mont...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gonzalez Rice, Karen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Performance art > Themes, motives.
Arts, American > Themes, motives.
Art and religion.
ART > Reference.
ART > Performance.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism.
Art et religion > États-Unis > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Arts, American > 21st century > Themes, motives.
Art and religion > United States > History > 21st century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • One. The Arc of the Moral Universe Bends toward Justice; Sanctify Your Dissent; Recuperating Religion; Visualizing Trauma; Do We Look, or Do We Look Away?; Two. Linda Montano, Performance Art Saint; Becoming Sister Rose Augustine; The Tensions of Monasticism; Erasing the Past; Endurance and the Pursuit of Sainthood; Performing Sister Rose Augustine; Abstracting the Habit; Three. The Faith Healings of Ron Athey; Overflowing with Liquid Love; Internal Bleeding; Faith Healing before a Live Audience; Reverend Ron; Four. John Duncan's Confrontational Aesthetics; Totally Depraved.
  • Preaching HellfireMutilating the Self; Feminism, Dialogue, Confrontation; Surviving Blind Date; Epilogue: Endurance at the Corner of State and Bank; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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