Carrie Lambert Beatty
Boundaries of the new art activism.
Carrie lambert beatty. Her 2008 book being watched. Yvonne rainer and the 1960s is a critical history of the art of a signal member of the american avant garde exploring minimalism dance performance. Carrie lambert beatty is an art historian at harvard university whose research focuses on art since 1960 especially performance art in a broad sense.
Yvonne rainer and the 1960s mit press 2008 and the essay make believe. Within the history of contemporary art carrie lambert beatty s research interests include performance political and activist art reception and spectatorship and the aesthetics of deception. She teaches art history and visual studies at harvard university.
She is the author of the award winning book being watched. What happens when art works deceive. Carrie lambert beatty is an art historian with a focus on art from the 1960s to the present and a special interest in performance in an expanded sense.
There were a number of art projects coming to my attention in the mid 2000s that had a kind of structural similarity a particular kind of epistemic shiftiness changes in levels and degrees of certainty. And artistic interventions in daily life. Yvonne rainer and the 1960s and essays including twelve miles.
She is the author of the award winning book being watched. Her current research is on thirty years of fiction presented as fact parafiction in contemporary art asking. She has written about the intersections of dance and visual art.
Although the individual works fit into existing critical categories. Her current research is on thirty years of artistic parafiction that is fiction presented as fact. Parafiction started as a shorthand term.
Without discounting these innovations carrie lambert beatty argues in being watched that the crucial site of rainer s interventions in the 1960s was less the body of the performer than the eye of the viewer or rather the body as offered to the eye. Parafiction and plausibility among other writings. Carrie lambert beatty is a contemporary art historian.
Rainer s art lambert beatty writes is structured by a peculiar tension between the body and. Carrie lambert beatty is a contemporary art historian. Performance documentation and reenactment.
Yvonne rainer and the 1960s mit press 2008 and the essay make believe.