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Yvonne Rainer: The Mind is a Muscle (One Work)

Catherine Wood, Yvonne Rainer Afterall Books Afterall Books
"It is my overall concern to reveal people as they are engaged in various kinds of activities--alone, with each other, with objects--and to weight the quality of the human body towards that of objects and away from the super-stylization of the...
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Feelings Are Facts: A Life (Writing Art)

Yvonne Rainer The MIT Press The MIT Press
If you're interested in Plato, you're reading the wrong book. If you're interested in difficult childhoods, sexual misadventures, aesthetics, cultural history, and the reasons that a club sandwich and other meals--including breakfast--have remained...
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A Woman Who...: Essays, Interviews, Scripts (PAJ Books: Art + Performance)

Yvonne Rainer The Johns Hopkins University Press The Johns Hopkins University Press
Yvonne Rainer is one of the most important feminist, avant-garde filmmakers working today. She began her career as a dancer and choreographer, and was one of the founders of hte Judson Dance Theater. Since the mid-1970s, however, she has worked...
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The Films of Yvonne Rainer (Theores of Representation and Difference)

Yvonne Rainer Indiana University Press Indiana University Press
The scripts of Rainer's five films demonstrate the evolution of her political consciousness as well as her creative engagement with the contemporary film and cultural scene.
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Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s (October Books)

Carrie Lambert-Beatty The MIT Press The MIT Press
In her dance and performances of the 1960s, Yvonne Rainer famously transformed the performing body--stripped it of special techniques and star status, traded its costumes and leotards for T-shirts and sneakers, asked it to haul mattresses or recite...
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The woman who changed everything: Yvonne Rainer tells her story.(Book review): An article from: Dance Magazine

Wendy Perron Thomson Gale Thomson Gale
This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2006. The length of the article is 960 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and...
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Yvonne Rainer: Radical Juxtapositions 1961-2002

Charles Atlas, Sally Banes, NoIl Carroll, Sabine Folie, Carrie Lambert, Peggy Phelan, Yvonne Rainer The University of the Arts The University of the Arts
Description: Radical Juxtapositions is the first book to present both artistic facets of Yvonne Rainer, dance innovator and award-winning filmmaker. One of the most respected artists of the 20th century, Rainer broke new ground as part of the Judson...
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Postmodernism: A Virtual Discussion

Maxwell Anderson, Jennifer Gonzalez, Michael Leja, Jerry Saltz, Michelle Wallace, Jonathan Weinberg, Chrissie Iles, David Ross, Donna deSalvo, Simon Leung, Wendy Ewald, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Storr The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/The Center for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/The Center for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC
What is postmodernism and is it a useful concept for understanding American art and visual culture of the past 40 years? When and to what extent did modernism wane as a viable force in American art? How have the various liberation movements, from...
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Radical Juxtaposition

Shelley Green The Scarecrow Press, Inc. The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Examines the work of Yvonne Rainer, one of the central figures of avant-garde film. The comprehensive study surveys critical reaction and includes Rainer's critical writings, photos, full biographical information, a complete filmography, and...
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The 1960s Body Through Sculptural Movement and Static Dance - The Works of George Segal, Allan Kaprow, and Yvonne Rainer

Maya Bartel VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K. VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K.
One of the major cultural upheavals of the 1960s was a blurring of the boundaries that defined traditional art disciplines. In particular, sculpture, performance art and dance came to share many of the same attributes that once made them distinct...
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