Massage, c. 1966
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11261682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alex Kitnick (ALEX KITNICK is Brant Foundation Fellow in Contemporary Arts at Bard College. He co-edited, with Hal Foster, October 136 on New Brutalism., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 159 |
| Pages | 86-102 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | October (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2870 • E-ISSN: 1536-013X |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/octo_a_00283 |
| OpenAlex | W2593430195 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Tied to the body, the word “massage” in the mid-1960s was also associated with media, as well as the idea of mass manipulation. Framed through the work of the media theorist Marshall McLuhan and the artist Claes Oldenburg, this essay considers the intersections between media theory and body and performance art
Advertising · Alternative medicine · Art · Art history · Business · Mass media · Massage · Visual arts · Work (physics · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Art, Technology, and Culture · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Engineering · Medicine · Mechanical Engineering
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |