Author Description

This book explores ways in which ideas and practices emerging in art, architecture and music have been taken up and developed in recent performance. Setting the notion of a postmodern style against a broader concept of the postmodern work, the study considers various forms of performance art, dance and theatre which define themselves in opposition to self-consciously modernist modes of work. In doing so, the book seeks to describe a position which opposes notions of the self-contained, autonomous art-work and may be understood in relation to concepts of the postmodern as it is defined in criticism, philosophy and cultural theory.