Author: Mike Parr
Publisher: Schwartz
ISBN: 9781863952552
Category : Performance art
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Mike Parr is Australia's most significant performance artist. His contribution to the development and establishment of performance art in Australia remains continuous and resolute. Parr's dedication and research into the boundaries of performance art within the parameters of art history and theory are unprecedented. At the forefront of performance art in Australia in 1970, Parr explored areas far removed from mainstream visual culture at the time. Despite the contempt, he persevered, remaining true to his practice. This long awaited book pays homage to Parr's achievements and is an essential admission into Australia's cultural memory. Compiled by the artist, this first hand account includes an extraordinary array of photographic documentation together with performance scripts and the artist's writings on his work, encapsulating the qualities that have made Mike Parr one of Australia's greatest cultural assets on the world stage. Parr has performed in Switzerland, France, Austria, Italy, USA, Japan, The Philippines, Sweden and throughout Australia since 1973.
Performances 1971-2008
Author: Mike Parr
Publisher: Schwartz
ISBN: 9781863952552
Category : Performance art
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Mike Parr is Australia's most significant performance artist. His contribution to the development and establishment of performance art in Australia remains continuous and resolute. Parr's dedication and research into the boundaries of performance art within the parameters of art history and theory are unprecedented. At the forefront of performance art in Australia in 1970, Parr explored areas far removed from mainstream visual culture at the time. Despite the contempt, he persevered, remaining true to his practice. This long awaited book pays homage to Parr's achievements and is an essential admission into Australia's cultural memory. Compiled by the artist, this first hand account includes an extraordinary array of photographic documentation together with performance scripts and the artist's writings on his work, encapsulating the qualities that have made Mike Parr one of Australia's greatest cultural assets on the world stage. Parr has performed in Switzerland, France, Austria, Italy, USA, Japan, The Philippines, Sweden and throughout Australia since 1973.
Publisher: Schwartz
ISBN: 9781863952552
Category : Performance art
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Mike Parr is Australia's most significant performance artist. His contribution to the development and establishment of performance art in Australia remains continuous and resolute. Parr's dedication and research into the boundaries of performance art within the parameters of art history and theory are unprecedented. At the forefront of performance art in Australia in 1970, Parr explored areas far removed from mainstream visual culture at the time. Despite the contempt, he persevered, remaining true to his practice. This long awaited book pays homage to Parr's achievements and is an essential admission into Australia's cultural memory. Compiled by the artist, this first hand account includes an extraordinary array of photographic documentation together with performance scripts and the artist's writings on his work, encapsulating the qualities that have made Mike Parr one of Australia's greatest cultural assets on the world stage. Parr has performed in Switzerland, France, Austria, Italy, USA, Japan, The Philippines, Sweden and throughout Australia since 1973.
Mike Parr
Author: Mike Parr
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780642334633
Category : Art, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Mike Parr is regarded as one of Australia's pre-eminent artists with a practice spanning performance, film, painting, sculpture and printmaking. Emerging from a background of conceptual art in the early 1970's, the probing nature of his word works and psychoanalytic drawings escalated into the provocative performance art for which he is now recognised internationally. This generously illustrated publication brings together 13 essays by Australian artists, poets, curators and critics reflecting on aspects of Parr's career. Forming a shifting collection of ideas this volume is an indispensable companion for those seeking to more deeply understand Parr's insatiably experimental practice.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780642334633
Category : Art, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Mike Parr is regarded as one of Australia's pre-eminent artists with a practice spanning performance, film, painting, sculpture and printmaking. Emerging from a background of conceptual art in the early 1970's, the probing nature of his word works and psychoanalytic drawings escalated into the provocative performance art for which he is now recognised internationally. This generously illustrated publication brings together 13 essays by Australian artists, poets, curators and critics reflecting on aspects of Parr's career. Forming a shifting collection of ideas this volume is an indispensable companion for those seeking to more deeply understand Parr's insatiably experimental practice.
Mike Parr
Author: Mike Parr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 14
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 14
Book Description
The Darkroom
Author: Anne Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan Education AU
ISBN: 9781876832780
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Anne Marsh's treatise on the art of photography traces its theoretical underpinning from the early debates between the rationalists and the fantasists, through psychoanalytical interpretations, to the theatre of desire. She investigates the role of photography in ghostly performances', the masking of desire' and high camp aesthetics' - through to performance art' and the role of the photographer as a gender terrorist' - as in the work of Del LaGrace Volcano. The study concludes with notable examples of postmodern photography as they have occurred in the Australian context. This ground-breaking work by a leading Monash University academic will interest all students of photography and followers of recent trends in art and art theory.
Publisher: Macmillan Education AU
ISBN: 9781876832780
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Anne Marsh's treatise on the art of photography traces its theoretical underpinning from the early debates between the rationalists and the fantasists, through psychoanalytical interpretations, to the theatre of desire. She investigates the role of photography in ghostly performances', the masking of desire' and high camp aesthetics' - through to performance art' and the role of the photographer as a gender terrorist' - as in the work of Del LaGrace Volcano. The study concludes with notable examples of postmodern photography as they have occurred in the Australian context. This ground-breaking work by a leading Monash University academic will interest all students of photography and followers of recent trends in art and art theory.
The Infinity Machine
Author: Edward Scheer
Publisher: Schwartz
ISBN: 9781863954273
Category : Art, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Mike Parr is Australia's most significant performance artist. His contribution to the development and establishment of performance art in Australia remains continuous and resolute. Parr's dedication and research into the boundaries of performance art within the parameters of art history and theory are unprecedented. At the forefront of performance art in Australia in 1970, Parr explored areas far removed from mainstream visual culture at the time. Despite the contempt, he persevered, remaining true to his practice. This long awaited book pays homage to Parr's achievements and is an essential admission into Australia's cultural memory. Compiled by the artist, this first hand account includes an extraordinary array of photographic documentation together with performance scripts and the artist's writings on his work, encapsulating the qualities that have made Mike Parr one of Australia's greatest cultural assets on the world stage. Parr has performed in Switzerland, France, Austria, Italy, USA, Japan, The Philippines, Sweden and throughout Australia since 1973.
Publisher: Schwartz
ISBN: 9781863954273
Category : Art, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Mike Parr is Australia's most significant performance artist. His contribution to the development and establishment of performance art in Australia remains continuous and resolute. Parr's dedication and research into the boundaries of performance art within the parameters of art history and theory are unprecedented. At the forefront of performance art in Australia in 1970, Parr explored areas far removed from mainstream visual culture at the time. Despite the contempt, he persevered, remaining true to his practice. This long awaited book pays homage to Parr's achievements and is an essential admission into Australia's cultural memory. Compiled by the artist, this first hand account includes an extraordinary array of photographic documentation together with performance scripts and the artist's writings on his work, encapsulating the qualities that have made Mike Parr one of Australia's greatest cultural assets on the world stage. Parr has performed in Switzerland, France, Austria, Italy, USA, Japan, The Philippines, Sweden and throughout Australia since 1973.
Mike Parr
Author: Mike Parr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Mike Parr
Author: Katie Dyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646570761
Category : Drawing, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This catalogue, impressively designed by Jay Ryves, creates a lasting record and an important opportunity for audiences to gain new insights into an artist whose contributions are as thought provoking as they are mesmerizing.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646570761
Category : Drawing, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This catalogue, impressively designed by Jay Ryves, creates a lasting record and an important opportunity for audiences to gain new insights into an artist whose contributions are as thought provoking as they are mesmerizing.
Mike Parr
Author: Graham Coulter-Smith
Publisher: Black Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Art, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher: Black Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Art, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Mike Parr
Author: Mike Parr
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781876017637
Category : Blood in art
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781876017637
Category : Blood in art
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
The Mommy Book
Author: Todd Parr
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316049530
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
With his trademark, child-like art, Todd Parr celebrates mothers, whether they drive a minivan or a motorcycle or work in a big building or at home. Full color.
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316049530
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
With his trademark, child-like art, Todd Parr celebrates mothers, whether they drive a minivan or a motorcycle or work in a big building or at home. Full color.