Work 1961-1973. - Yvonne Rainer

RAINER, Yvonne. 
Work 1961-1973. 
First edition. Large 8vo. B&w plates throughout. Cloth boards with a dust wrapper. Halifax: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1974. 

“It goes without saying that a dance is a dance and a book about dance is a book. Though they may meet at the intersection of Art and Good Intentions, I find myself greedy. I have a longstanding infatuation with language, a not-easily assailed conviction that it, above all else, offers a key to clarity. Not that it can replace experience, but rather holds a mirror to our experience, gives us distance when we need it. So here I am, in a sense, trying to ‘replace’ my performances with a book, greedily pushing language to clarify what already was clear in other terms. But, alas, gone. This has seemed one good reason to compile a book out of the remains of my performances, letting the language fall where it may. Let it be said ‘She usually makes performances and has also made a book.'” -Yvonne Rainer