Dancing with Myself

By: Martin Bethenod

Dancing with Myself is a wild jig through the art of the last fifty years, in which the dancers are the artists themselves. Dancing with Myself investigates the elemental importance of self-representation in art from the 1970s to the present day and the role of the artist as protagonist and subject of the work. Through a wide variety of artistic practices and artists (from Claude Cahun to LaToya Ruby Frazier, from Gilbert & George to Cindy Sherman, and from Alighiero Boetti to Maurizio Cattelan) coming from different cultures and backgrounds, generations and experiences, it reflects on the contrast between different approaches: melancholy and vanity, ironic games played with identity and political autobiography, existential rumination and the body as sculpture, effigy or fragment, and its symbolical representation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8831729047
• ISBN13: 9788831729048
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Marsilio Editori
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.1" x 10.0"