Laurie Anderson
Performance Artist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8918633 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mel Gordon (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 51-54 |
| Publication date | 1980-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Drama Review TDR (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-5962 • E-ISSN: 2326-2060 |
| Publisher | The MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1145281 |
| OpenAlex | W2797200630 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
I always felt it was a mistake being labeled as an autobiographical artist.[...] Most of the work that I do is two-part or stereo, not monolithic at all—so there's always the yes/no, he/she, or whatever pairs I'm working with. Laurie Anderson, 1979 Since her first performance work in 1974, Laurie Anderson has found herself concerned with a basic esthetic dilemma that has troubled a number of other performance artists: how to create an intensely personal art that is not just simple autobiography. How can the performer/author bring raw, unmediated materials from his/her life and structure them to strike a balance between his/her own needs and those of the audience? For Anderson, the resolution is not only intellectual but technical; it is one that leads to a new performance style
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Balance (ability · Biography · Dilemma · Epistemology · Mistake · Performing arts · Political science · Sociology · Style (visual arts · Visual arts · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |