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Performing Endurance: Art and Politics since 1960

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Examining a range of performances from the 1960s to the present, as well as protest actions from the lunch counter sit-ins of the US civil rights movement to protest camps in the twenty-first century, this book provides a formal account of endurance and illuminates its ethical and political significance.

Artist / Author Lara Shalson
Publisher Cambridge University Press
ISBN 978-1108426459
Reference P3716
Date 2018
Type Publication

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