In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art

by Meiling Cheng

Book Overview

Performance art and Los Angeles, two subjects spectacularly resistant to definitions, illuminate each other in this searching study by Meiling Cheng. A marginal artistic pursuit by choice as well as necessity, performance art has flourished in and about "multicentric" Los Angeles for nearly four decades, finding its own centers of activity, moving and changing as the margins have reconstituted themselves. The notion of multicentricity serves, somewhat...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520235150
• ISBN13: 9780520235151
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 441 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"