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John Giorno: The Performative Word

John Giorno: The Performative Word

Giorno, John
Huberman, Anthony
Whitehouse, Bonnie

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ISBN10: 8867497308
ISBN13: 9788867497300
Publisher: Mousse Publishing
Published: Oct 6 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 8.60 Depth: 11.30
Language: English

Unpacking the life and work of a beloved New York artist whose multihyphenate practice and radical linguistic vision influenced a generation of poets, performers and activists

This is the first monograph dedicated to the visionary American artist, poet and activist John Giorno. Emerging from the New York downtown scene of the 1960s, Giorno developed a singular artistic voice at the crossroads of poetry, performance, painting and political activism over the course of more than six decades. By bringing the written word off the page and into performance, technology and visual art, Giorno challenged disciplinary boundaries and advanced a radical vision of language as central to human expression. Though often positioned at the margins of multiple downtown scenes--the Beats, Andy Warhol's Factory, punk music, queer counterculture, anti-war activism--he was in fact an influential presence within all of them, operating as a conduit between coexisting cultural communities. His collaborators included Robert Rauschenberg, William S. Burroughs, Laurie Anderson, Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg, among many others.

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