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Joan Rothfuss Topless Cellist (Paperback) MIT Press
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- Publication Name
- Topless Cellist
- Title
- Topless Cellist
- Subtitle
- The Improbable Life of Charlotte Moorman
- ISBN-10
- 0262533588
- EAN
- 9780262533584
- ISBN
- 9780262533584
- Release Year
- 2017
- Release Date
- 03/03/2017
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 178mm
- Contributor
- Yoko Ono (Foreword by)
- Series
- MIT Press
- UPC
- 9780262533584
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Topless Cellist: the Improbable Life of Charlotte Moorman
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Topic
- Music
- Item Width
- 178mm
- Number of Pages
- 464 Pages
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The first book to explore the extraordinary career of musician and performance artist Charlotte Moorman, whose work combined classical rigor, avant-garde experiment, and madcap daring.The Juilliard-trained cellist Charlotte Moorman sat nude behind a cello of carved ice, performed while dangling from helium-filled balloons, and deployed an array of instruments on The Mike Douglas Show that included her cello, a whistle, a cap gun, a gong, and a belch. She did a striptease while playing Bach in Nam June Paik's Sonata for Adults Only. In the 1960s, Moorman (1933-1991) became famous for her madcap (and often unclothed) performance antics; less famous but more significant is Moorman's transformative influence on contemporary performance practice-and her dedication to the idea that avant-garde art should reach the widest possible audience. In Topless Cellist, the first book to explore Moorman's life and work, Joan Rothfuss rediscovers, and recovers, the legacy of an extraordinary American artist. Moorman's arrest in 1967 for performing topless made her a water-cooler conversation-starter, but before her tabloid fame she was a star of the avant-garde performance circuit, with a repertoire of pieces by, among others, Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, John Cage, and Paik, her main artistic partner. Moorman invented a new mode of performance that combined classical rigor, jazz improvisation, and avant-garde experiment-informed by intuition, daring, and love of spectacle. Moorman's annual festival of the avant-garde offered the public a lively sampler of contemporary art in performance, music, dance, poetry, film, and other media.Rothfuss chronicles Moorman's life from her youth in Little Rock, Arkansas (where she was Miss City Beautiful of 1952) through her career in New York's avant-garde to her death from breast cancer in 1991. (Typically, she approached her treatment as if it were a performance.) Deeply researched and profusely illustrated, Topless Cellist offers a fascinating, sometimes heartbreaking, often hilarious story of an artist whose importance was more than the sum of her performances.
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Book Title
Topless Cellist: the Improbable Life of Charlotte Moorman
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Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Music
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
464 Pages
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229mm
Item Width
178mm
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