Dance Dance Film Essays
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Author: Crimp, Douglas
Pioneering AIDS activist, art critic, educator and curator Douglas Crimp is known for the fluidity and acuity of his writing on an array of passions. His book AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism (1987) deconstructed the art world’s complicated and mostly disheartening responses to the AIDS crisis; On the Museum’s Ruins (1993) explored postmodernist art practices in relation to the politics of institutions; and Before Pictures (2016), a brilliant combination of memoir and criticism, chronicled Crimp’s first decade in 1970s New York.This new book collects the critic’s incisive pieces on dance (a lifelong interest) and dance on film, which, according to Artforum, “galvanized the field and synthesized histories of ballet, modern dance and postmodern performance.” Written from 2006 to 2010, these in-depth essays are devoted to choreographers and filmmakers such as Charles Atlas, Trisha Brown, Merce Cunningham, Tacita Dean, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Yvonne Rainer. Before his death in July 2019, Crimp penned a new essay specifically for this book that probes the idea and definition of the “dance film.”This beautifully designed clothbound volume, which shows Crimp’s tireless investigation and experimentation with writing, includes an introduction by curator Lynne Cooke, who invited Crimp to collaborate with her on the landmark 2010 show Mixed Use, Manhattan at the Museo Reina Sofia.
ISBN 9781733688949. Dancing Foxes Press/Galerie Buchholz. hb. 224 pages, 95 ills. 21.6 x 18.4 cm.
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Pioneering AIDS activist, art critic, educator and curator Douglas Crimp is known for the fluidity and acuity of his writing on an array of passions. His book AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism (1987) deconstructed the art world’s complicated and mostly disheartening responses to the AIDS crisis; On the Museum’s Ruins (1993) explored postmodernist art practices in relation to the politics of institutions; and Before Pictures (2016), a brilliant combination of memoir and criticism, chronicled Crimp’s first decade in 1970s New York.This new book collects the critic’s incisive pieces on dance (a lifelong interest) and dance on film, which, according to Artforum, “galvanized the field and synthesized histories of ballet, modern dance and postmodern performance.” Written from 2006 to 2010, these in-depth essays are devoted to choreographers and filmmakers such as Charles Atlas, Trisha Brown, Merce Cunningham, Tacita Dean, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Yvonne Rainer. Before his death in July 2019, Crimp penned a new essay specifically for this book that probes the idea and definition of the “dance film.”This beautifully designed clothbound volume, which shows Crimp’s tireless investigation and experimentation with writing, includes an introduction by curator Lynne Cooke, who invited Crimp to collaborate with her on the landmark 2010 show Mixed Use, Manhattan at the Museo Reina Sofia.
ISBN 9781733688949. Dancing Foxes Press/Galerie Buchholz. hb. 224 pages, 95 ills. 21.6 x 18.4 cm.
not yet published