Since the 1970s; the performance and conceptual artist Suzanne Lacy has explored womenrsquo;s lives and experiences; as well as race; ethnicity; aging; economic disparities; and violence; through her pioneering community-based art. Combining aesthetics and politics; and often collaborating with other artists and community organizations; she has staged large-scale public art projects; sometimes involving hundreds of participants. Lacy has consistently written about her work: planning; describing; and analyzing it; advocating socially engaged art practices; theorizing the relationship between art and social intervention; and questioning the boundaries separating high art from popular participation. By bringing together thirty texts that Lacy has written since 1974; Leaving Art offers an intimate look at the development of feminist; conceptual; and performance art since those movementsrsquo; formative years. In the introduction; the art historian Moira Roth provides a helpful overview of Lacyrsquo;s art and writing; which in the afterword the cultural theorist Kerstin Mey situates in relation to contemporary public art practices.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. An book about the Theatre; Politics and Performance in the 1930s.By kzgrandprixThis is an interesting book on a subject I havent read about before although Ive studied and written about the arts during this era.So It was wonderful to find this book written by a Smith Professor in Theatre who has since died. l am grateful that her daughter posted about this book on Facebook.