Sentences with phrase «topless cellist»
Known at the «Topless Cellist,» she not only made these original scores her own, but was a completely fearless performer.
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The bonanza has already begun with «A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant Garde, 1960s - 1980s» at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, a traveling retrospective look at the famed «topless cellist» who was, right up to her death in 1991, a daring artist and a visionary organizer of a passionately successful campaign for electronically - based multimedia art, which she helped to invent.
Moorman was tagged as the «topless cellist» but far beyond being a novelty act, she was an artist of wit and anarchic invention, and the inventor of the Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York, an anti-Art Basel if ever there was one.
Though best remembered for earning Moorman the title of the «Topless Cellist,» Opera Sextronique proved that the rules of music — that performers be clothed, that music sound nice, that no score be left to chance — needed to be broken.
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Paik's TV Bra for Living Sculpture (1969), in which the performance artist and cellist Charlotte Moorman played the cello topless with two small video - playing TV monitors attached to her chest, illustrates video art's long - standing ties to performance (see also performance art), as well as its often avant - garde nature.