{"product_id":"art-is-speaking-portraits-george-quasha-9781555541620","title":"Art Is (Speaking Portraits)","description":"This new volume in the Performance Ideas series is drawn from the ongoing video work \u003ci\u003eart is\/poetry is\/music is (Speaking Portraits)\u003c\/i\u003e, which features over 1000 artists--painters, poets, musicians, dancers, actors, video-\/filmmakers--in eleven countries saying what art is. \u003ci\u003eart is\u003c\/i\u003e offers an intimate view of seventy of those engaged in art as performance. Single-frame images, accompanied by individual artist statements, capture moments of high intensity from Marina Abramovic, Carolee Schneemann, Robert Wilson, Laurie Anderson, Jonah Bokaer, Robert Ashley, Pauline Oliveros, Thurston Moore, Gary Hill, Vito Acconci, Archie Shepp, Joan Jonas, Anthony Braxton, Ann Hamilton, and many more. George Quasha writes in his Introduction: \"Listening to so many artists, closely and over many years, has taught me further configurative dimensions of performative mind. Close listening\/viewing--non-interfering attention--nurtures art, just as it does people, animals, maybe even plants.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George Quasha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1555541623\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555541620\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e PAJ Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/21\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 4.40w x 0.30d","brand":"George Quasha","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939595518207,"sku":"9781555541620","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f4484e42-ffed-43c1-8ef6-2ccae55b3354.jpg?v=1681442414","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/art-is-speaking-portraits-george-quasha-9781555541620","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}