Unpositioned Something is wrong

Art as performance / David Davies

This volume provides a conceptual framework for the arts, analysing the relationships between traditional and modern practices. It examines key topics in aesthetics, including appreciation, intention, and performance, to define the nature and meaning of artworks.

Author

ISBN

Publisher

CONNECTIONS

No connections

LOCATION HISTORY

No location history available for this book.

FULL RECORD

Accession Number: 16722

Site: Vernon O Content

Collection: N/A

Location: N/A

Binding Type: Hard Back

Book Images

Hover to see live images

No live

No live

Vernon Fields

View in Vernon Browser

vernon_accession	16722
vernon_id	26036
vernon_slug	art-as-performance-david-davies
vernon_authors	David Davies
vernon_tags	Social sciences, Civilisation, Performance art, Arts, Modern, Music -- Performance, Human behaviour, Art and society, Social practice (Art), Work, Performance practice (Music), Performance
vernon_production_date	2004
vernon_brief_description	Elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework based on the idea of performance, rather than the object d'art for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art, and between different artistic disciplines.
vernon_object_type	Books/Document genres/Information forms/Visual and Verbal Communication
vernon_locations	Storage
vernon_ob_status	Accessioned
vernon_isbn_issn	1405116668
vernon_subject_people	Dinos Chapman (b.1962), Jake Chapman (b.1966)
vernon_subject_objects	—
vernon_subject_classes	—
vernon_last_sync_timestamp	2026-04-27 08:50
vernon_cover_image_id	40580

VERNON RECORD

{
  "slug": "art-as-performance-david-davies",
  "opacObjectId": "26036",
  "opacCollection": {
    "opacCollectionId": "1"
  },
  "imagesCollection": {
    "images": [
      {
        "imageId": "40580",
        "cssColors": [
          {
            "hex": "8b4513",
            "hue": 25,
            "rank": 1,
            "presence": 51.65,
            "colorName": "saddlebrown",
            "lightness": 31,
            "colorGroup": "brown",
            "saturation": 76,
            "formattedColorName": "saddle brown"
          },
          {
            "hex": "d2b48c",
            "hue": 34,
            "rank": 2,
            "presence": 7.2,
            "colorName": "tan",
            "lightness": 69,
            "colorGroup": "brown",
            "saturation": 44,
            "formattedColorName": "tan"
          },
          {
            "hex": "000000",
            "hue": 0,
            "rank": 3,
            "presence": 25.15,
            "colorName": "black",
            "lightness": 0,
            "colorGroup": "gray",
            "saturation": 0,
            "formattedColorName": "black"
          },
          {
            "hex": "a0522d",
            "hue": 19,
            "rank": 4,
            "presence": 9.38,
            "colorName": "sienna",
            "lightness": 40,
            "colorGroup": "brown",
            "saturation": 56,
            "formattedColorName": "sienna"
          }
        ],
        "rawColors": [
          {
            "hex": "6d3313",
            "hue": 21,
            "rank": 1,
            "presence": 51.65,
            "lightness": 25,
            "saturation": 70
          },
          {
            "hex": "e2cec2",
            "hue": 22,
            "rank": 2,
            "presence": 7.2,
            "lightness": 82,
            "saturation": 35
          },
          {
            "hex": "1b0f0a",
            "hue": 17,
            "rank": 3,
            "presence": 25.15,
            "lightness": 7,
            "saturation": 45
          },
          {
            "hex": "9b7a6d",
            "hue": 16,
            "rank": 4,
            "presence": 9.38,
            "lightness": 51,
            "saturation": 18
          },
          {
            "hex": "7d5c53",
            "hue": 12,
            "rank": 5,
            "presence": 5.68,
            "lightness": 40,
            "saturation": 20
          },
          {
            "hex": "b19e93",
            "hue": 22,
            "rank": 6,
            "presence": 0.41,
            "lightness": 63,
            "saturation": 16
          },
          {
            "hex": "a5908d",
            "hue": 7,
            "rank": 7,
            "presence": 0.53,
            "lightness": 60,
            "saturation": 11
          }
        ],
        "imageLabels": [
          {
            "count": 16890,
            "score": 89.74,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Publication",
            "imageLabelId": 23
          },
          {
            "count": 13268,
            "score": 81.48,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Book",
            "imageLabelId": 67
          },
          {
            "count": 10880,
            "score": 80.33,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Book cover",
            "imageLabelId": 90
          },
          {
            "count": 4961,
            "score": 75.99,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Advertising",
            "imageLabelId": 71
          },
          {
            "count": 10369,
            "score": 71.43,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Poster",
            "imageLabelId": 21
          },
          {
            "count": 4728,
            "score": 57.46,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Graphic design",
            "imageLabelId": 17
          }
        ],
        "imageDerivatives": [
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/large/34514/11997ee727e6e3125c7fcf45d594fe31fc4d0d9b.jpg",
            "width": "531",
            "height": "800",
            "identifier": "LARGE"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/medium/34514/11997ee727e6e3125c7fcf45d594fe31fc4d0d9b.jpg",
            "width": "265",
            "height": "400",
            "identifier": "MEDIUM"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/nano/34514/11997ee727e6e3125c7fcf45d594fe31fc4d0d9b.jpg",
            "width": "23",
            "height": "35",
            "identifier": "NANO"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/small/34514/11997ee727e6e3125c7fcf45d594fe31fc4d0d9b.jpg",
            "width": "100",
            "height": "150",
            "identifier": "SMALL"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/tiny/34514/11997ee727e6e3125c7fcf45d594fe31fc4d0d9b.jpg",
            "width": "50",
            "height": "75",
            "identifier": "TINY"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/xlarge/34514/11997ee727e6e3125c7fcf45d594fe31fc4d0d9b.jpg",
            "width": "609",
            "height": "918",
            "identifier": "XLARGE"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "totalImages": 1
  },
  "objectSearchScore": 1.3085346,
  "opacObjectFieldSets": [
    {
      "identifier": "accession_no",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "16722"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "name",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Art as performance / David Davies",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "title",
              "value": "Art as performance / David Davies"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "other_name",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "artist_last_first",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Davies, David"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "prod_pri_date",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "2004",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "earliest_date",
              "value": "2004-01-01Z"
            },
            {
              "key": "latest_date",
              "value": "2004-12-31Z"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "prod_pri_date_notes",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "edition",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "brief_desc",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework based on the idea of performance, rather than the object d'art for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art, and between different artistic disciplines."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "measure_desc",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "credit_line",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "curr_loc_status",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Storage",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "curr_loc_status:\"Storage\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "ob_status",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Accessioned"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "lender",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_owner",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_type",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_start",
      "opacObjectFields": []
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_expiry",
      "opacObjectFields": []
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_notes",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "object_type",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Books/Document genres/Information forms/Visual and Verbal Communication",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "object_type:\"Books/Document genres/Information forms/Visual and Verbal Communication\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "collection",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Main Collection/Library",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "collection:\"Main Collection/Library\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "prod_pri_place",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Malden/Massachusetts/United States of America"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "physical_notes",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "xii, 278 pages ; 24 cm."
        },
        {
          "value": "Including bibliographical references and index."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "language",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "English"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "isbn_issn",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "1405116668"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "user_sym_1",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "111.85 DAV"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "usual_loc_being",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Open 4B/Open Shelving/Library/Roundhouse Complex"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_class",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Performance art/Arts, Modern",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Performance art/Arts, Modern\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Performance/Work/Human behaviour/Social sciences/Civilisation",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Performance/Work/Human behaviour/Social sciences/Civilisation\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Performance practice (Music)/Music -- Performance",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Performance practice (Music)/Music -- Performance\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Social practice (Art)/Art and society",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Social practice (Art)/Art and society\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_date",
      "opacObjectFields": []
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_event",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_period",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_object",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_person",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Dinos Chapman (b.1962)",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_person:\"Dinos Chapman (b.1962)\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Jake Chapman (b.1966)",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_person:\"Jake Chapman (b.1966)\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_place",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "assoc_person",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "assoc_place",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "assoc_event",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "assoc_object",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "user_sym_9",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "relationshipsCollection": {
    "relationships": [
      {
        "relatedRecords": [
          {
            "slug": "david-davies",
            "title": "David Davies",
            "relatedRecordId": "30479"
          }
        ],
        "relationshipId": "object_prod_pri_person",
        "relatedRecordType": "person",
        "totalRelatedRecords": 1
      }
    ],
    "totalRelationships": 1
  }
}