TY - BOOK AU - McEvilley,Thomas TI - The triumph of anti-art: conceptual and performance art in the formation of post-modernism SN - 9780929701677 (cloth) : AV - NX456.5.P66 M42 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - Kingston, N.Y. PB - McPherson & Co. KW - Postmodernism KW - Conceptual art KW - Performance art KW - Arts, Modern KW - 20th century N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Kant, Duchamp and Dada : the background -- Out of the ashes : the twentieth century as syllogism -- Yves Klein : messenger of the age of space -- Anti-art as cognition -- William Anastasi : talk about dumb -- François Morellet : Pythagorean post-modernist -- Bernar Venet : from breakthrough to cul-de-sac -- John Baldessari : the mythos of spring -- Les Levine : mass media campaigns -- Francis Alys : calling the unaccountable to account -- Anti-art as ethics -- Art in the dark -- Beuys and Warhol : the poseur's mantle -- Marina Abramovic/Ulay Ulay/Marina Abramovic -- James Lee Byars : the atmosphere of question -- Brian O'Doherty : an artist and his aliases -- Marina Abramovic : speaking silences, carrying water -- Performance exemplified : Joseph Beuys, Robert Rauschenberg, Hermann Nitsch, Stelarc, Tehching Hsieh/Linda Montano, Fiona Templeton, Pina Bausch, Carolee Schneemann, Marshall Weber -- The triumph of anti-art? ER -