{"product_id":"in-action","title":"In-action","description":"\u003cb\u003eA novel approach to performance art and its history that revisits Viennese Actionism, one of the most controversial episodes of the 1960s.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Viennese Actionism represents a notorious case within art history, often cited but little studied, especially in the United States. By carefully looking at the unsettling performances that define this movement, Caroline Lillian Schopp offers a vital corrective to the narrative. Schopp observes that contrary to the reception of their graphic violence, many performances explore passivity, vulnerability, and dependence in gestures of “in-action.” Viennese Actionism registers hesitations about the liberatory ethos of the 1960s, amplified by Austria’s marginalized postwar social and artistic culture. In dialogue with feminist theory,\u003ci\u003e In-action\u003c\/i\u003e assembles a vocabulary for performance art without the standards of self-assertion, emancipation, and expressive action that continue to inform how art and politics are understood today.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Decentering the traditional focus on the male protagonists of Viennese Actionism—Günter Brus, Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler—Schopp draws attention to women who performed with them, including Anna Brus, Hanel Koeck, and Ingrid Wiener. Doing so brings into view how these performances scrutinize intimate relationships like marriages, partnerships, and friendships, as well as the conventions of traditional artistic media such as painting and tapestry.","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54844089205080,"sku":"9780226839219","price":38.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780226839219_b8317091-1712-4339-bd2d-9356a03ad1a3.jpg?v=1779428741","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/in-action","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}