There's also the other Goffman book, Stigma, which is relevant and excellent.
I remember one oddity during the Vietnam war - there was an oddly apolitical stance, I think, among performance artists in the US; one could watch an Acconci piece, for example, and read political action into it, but it wasn't overt; what I remember in conversation with him was mostly discussions about art which was emerging out of modernism, but was still bound by a rather linear idea of success, style, and progress.
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