{"product_id":"the-scene-of-foreplay-giulia-palladini-9780810135222","title":"The Scene of Foreplay: Theater, Labor, and Leisure in 1960s New York","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Scene of Foreplay: Theater, Labor, and Leisure in 1960s New York\u003c\/i\u003e suggests \"foreplay\" as a theoretical framework for understanding a particular mode of performance production. That mode exists outside of predetermined structures of recognition in terms of professionalism, artistic achievement, and a logic of eventfulness. Foreplay denotes a peculiar way of working and inhabiting time in performance. It is recognized as emblematic of a constellation of artists in the 1960s New York scene, including Ellen Stewart, John Vaccaro, Ruby Lynn Reyner, Jackie Curtis, Andy Warhol, Tom Eyen, Jack Smith, and Penny Arcade. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Matching an original approach to historical materials and theoretical reflection, Palladini addresses the peculiar forms of production, reproduction, and consumption developed in the 1960s as labors of love, creating for artists a condition of \"preliminarity\" toward professional work and also functioning as a counterforce within productive economy, as a prelude where value is not yet assigned to labor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Scene of Foreplay\u003c\/i\u003e proposes that such labors of love can be considered both as paradigmatic for contemporary forms of precarious labor and also resonating with echoes from marginal histories of the performing arts, in a nonlinear genealogy of queer resistance to ideas of capitalist productivity and professionalism. The book offers much for those interested in performance theory as well asin the history of theater and performance arts in the 1960s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Giulia Palladini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810135221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810135222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Giulia Palladini","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096743846143,"sku":"9780810135222","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-scene-of-foreplay-giulia-palladini-9780810135222","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}