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Suzanne Lacy between Kaprow and Chicago

Pedagogy and Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2021

Amelia Jones
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Social practice and dematerialization are often cited as the most radical innovations in Euro-American contemporary art since the late 1960s, but rarely have historians acknowledged the crucial role of experimental pedagogy in this shift of art towards performance, conceptualism, and activism. The practice of Los Angeles–based performance artist Suzanne Lacy radically extended the ideas of her teachers and mentors Allan Kaprow and Judy Chicago into revised structures of artmaking towards activist social practice performances driven by conceptual, political, and embodied concerns.

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TDR , Volume 65 , Issue 4 , December 2021 , pp. 103 - 130
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© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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