- RoseLee Goldberg, (1998) Performance: Live Art Since 1960, Harry N. Abrams, NY NY

- Rockwell, John (2004). "Preserve Performance Art?" New York Times. April 30.
- Smith, Roberta (2005). "Performance Art Gets Its Biennial." New York Times. November 2.
- RoseLee Goldberg, (2001) Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (World of Art), Thames & Hudson; Rev Sub edition

- C. Carr, (1993) On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century, Wesleyan
Guillermo Gómez-Peña, (2005) Ethno-techno: Writings on performance, activism and pedagogy. Routledge, London. - GUERILLA GUIDE TO PERFORMANCE ART: HOW TO MAKE A LIVING AS AN ARTIST by Leslie Hill, Helen Paris, publisher: Continuum International


- Carl Loeffler, PERFORMANCE ANTHOLOGY, Publisher: Last Gasp/Contemporary Arts Press

- Martha Wilson, Performance Art: (Some) Theory and (Selected) Practice at the End of This Century, in Art Journal, Art Journal, Vol. 56, 1997
- Charles R. Garoian, Performance Art as Critical Pedagogy in Studio Art Education, in Art Journal, Art Journal, Vol. 58, 1999.
- Ingrid Stadler, Contemporary Art and Its Philosophical Problems (includes information on performance art in Chap. 6 "Do You Want to Remain Seated?"), Prometheus Books, 1987
- Michael Peterson, Straight White Male: Performance Art Monologues, University Press of Mississippi, 1997
- Frazer Ward, Some Relations between Conceptual and Performance Art, in Art Journal, Art Journal, Vol. 56, 1997.
- Qian Zhijian, Performing Bodies: Zhang Huan, Ma Liuming, and Performance Art in China, in Art Journal, Art Journal, Vol. 58, 1999
- Roselee Goldberg, Laurie Anderson, Abrams Books, 2000
- Ian Chilvers, A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art (section on performance art begins on pg. 469), Oxford University Press, 1999
- Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Dangerous Border Crossers: The Artist Talks Back, Routledge, 2000.
- Meiling Cheng, In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art, University of California Press, 2002
- Linda M. Montano, Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties: Sex, Food, Money/Fame, Ritual/Death, University of California Press, 2000.
- Kate Ince, Orlan: Millennial Female, Publisher: Berg, Place of Publication: Oxford, England, 2000
- Editor David Collins, Doncaster College, david.collins@don.ac.uk, Associate Editors: Alice Bayliss, University of Leeds, a.bayliss@leeds.ac.uk , Steve Dixon, University of Brunel, steve.dixon@brunel.ac.uk, Sita Popat, University of Leedss.popat@leeds.ac.uk, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 2005
- Susannah, Gelatin - The B-Thing. Published in 2002. One copy left at Skylight Books in LA.
- MacDonald, Claire, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, PAJ 52 (Volume 18, Number 1), January 1996
- Fiona Shaw, New Statesman - Performance art, Actresses and Whores: on stage and in societyKirsten Pullen Cambridge University Press, Published 11 April 2005
- Thomas Berghuis, Performance Art in China (Timezone 8 Editions) 2006
- Lex Lonehood, giving performance art a good name, artnet.com
- Performance: Live Art since 1960, by RoseLee Goldberg, foreword by Laurie Anderson, 1998, Abrams
- Banes, Sally, Subversive Expectations: Performance Art and Paratheater in New York, 1976-85, University of Michigan Press - 1998
- Matthew Ngui: Points of View, Published: 2007, Australia
- Lim Tzay Chuen, A Work, Published: 2005, Singapore
- LA DRAGU, edited by Paul Couillard, looks at the life and work of Margaret Dragu, with essays by Glenn Alteen, Paul Couillard, Andy Fabo, Debbie O'Rourke, and Sarah Sheard; a chronology by Brice Canyon, Art System, Toronto, OntarioNovember 10, 2002
An Introduction to Performance Art by Robert Fontenot
Performance:a critical introduction
* the evolution of performance art since the 1960s
* developments of performance as a concept within the various social sciences
* the relationships between performance, postmodernism and the politics of identity
For any student of performance studies, visual and performing arts or theatre history, Performance: A Critical Introduction provides a vital insight into the diverse meanings and uses of performance
Performance: a critical introduction
Performance: a critical introduction
- Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present By Christiane Paul, RoseLee Goldberg
- Anthony Howell - 1999 - 276 pages - Preview
Performance art is a unique movement which first became popular in the 1950s, this finely illustrated text is the first of its kind to outline the essential characteristics for students of contemporary theatre and performance. - RoseLee Goldberg - 1988 - 216 pages - Snippet view
Looks at the history of performance art, discusses Futurism, Constructiveism, Dada, Surrealism, and the Bauhaus, and identifies themes of modern performance art Performance is in some sense a combination of theater, dance, mime, concept art ... - RoseLee Goldberg - 1979 - 128 pages - Snippet view
A provocative history of live art traces the precedents of contemporary multi-media events to Bauhaus experimentalism and surveys the Futurists' manifesto-like events, the Dadaists' cabarets, and later "happenings" and "spectacles." - 1994 - 93 pages - Snippet view
And Steve Cripps did cause light of burning phosphorous to illuminate the dark corners. And Alastair Maclennan did walk slowly through the Valley of the Troubles, and the jumble did pile up around Poppo. With Nocturnal Emissions, Arts ... - Books, LLC - 2010 - 168 pages - No preview
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. - No cover imageJeff Nuttall - 1979 - 189 pages - No preview
A piece of autobiography. - Thomas J. Berghuis - 2006 - 310 pages - Preview
In his comprehensive study, Sydney-based theorist and art historian Thomas J. Berghuis introduces and investigates the idea of the "role of the mediated subject of the acting body in art," a notion grounded in the realization that the body ... - No cover imageLambert M Surhone, Miriam T Timpledon, Susan F Marseken - 2010 - 96 pages - No preview
Although performance art could be said to include relatively mainstream activities such as theater, dance, music, and circus-related things like fire breathing, juggling, and gymnastics, these are normally instead known as the performing ... - No cover imageDeakin University. Faculty of Arts. Flexible Learning Program, Deakin University. School of Communication and Creative Arts. Flexible Learning Program - 2006 - No preview
... principally for undergraduate unit ACC305 (Performance art : the politics of process) offered by the Faculty of Arts' School of Communication and Creative Arts in Deakin University's Flexible Learning Program. - Meiling Cheng - 2002 - 407 pages - Preview
This is a study of contemporary Los Angles through the lens of performance art, an intermedia visual art that incorporates theatrical elements in presentation.
- Marvin A. Carlson - 2004 - 276 pages - Preview
This is vintage Carlson--erudite, concise, precise and engaging. This title is an essential purchase for introductory courses in Performance Studies and Theatre History. Includes the addition of a glossary and a fully updated bibliography. - Coco Fusco - 2000 - 307 pages - Preview
"Corpus Delecti" is an unprecedented event in the history of Latino performance art. - Leslie Hill, Helen Paris - 2004 - 331 pages - Preview
The Guerilla Guide to Performance Art is the ultimate guide for artists, at all stages of their careers, who are engaged in creating original performance and multimedia work, including hybrids of theater, visual art, installation, physical ... - Jayne Wark - 2006 - 285 pages - Preview
InRadical GesturesJayne Wark situates feminist performance art in the US and Canada in the social context of the feminist movement and avant-garde art from the 1970s to 2000. - No cover imageInstitute for Government (Great Britain), Tom Gash - 2008 - 132 pages - No preview
- A. David Napier - 1992 - 223 pages - Full view
00 In five wide-ranging essays, A. David Napier explores the ways in which the foreign becomes literally and metaphorically embodied as a part of cultural identity rather than being seen as something outside it. - David Davies - 2004 - 278 pages - Preview
Replete with examples drawn from both modern and traditional art, the book highlights core topics in aesthetics and art theory, including traditional theories about the nature of art, aesthetic appreciation, artistic intentions, performance ... - No cover imageJohn Betancourt - 1992 - 64 pages - No preview
- Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell - 1999 - 274 pages - Preview
This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars from music, drama, poetry, performance art, religion, classics and philosophy to investigate the complex and developing interaction between performance and authenticity in the arts ... - Nick Kaye - 2000 - 238 pages - Preview
This volume is an astonishing contribution to debates around experimental cross-arts practice.
- Fran Lloyd - 2002 - 224 pages - Preview
7 Tokyo's Urban and Sexual Transformations: Performance Art and Digital Cultures STEPHEN BARBER The explorations of performance-art media in Japan over the past 40 years have pursued combative strategies towards their two principal ... - Carl E. Loeffler, Darlene Tong - 1989 - 531 pages - Preview
This updated edition of Performance Anthology offers an extraordinary documentation of California performance art from 1970 through 1988. - Fred S. Kleiner - 2009 - 832 pages - Preview
The term that art historians use to describe these temporal works is Performance Art. Performance Art Performance artists replace traditional stationary artworks with movements, gestures, and sounds carried out before an audience, ... - Jane Blocker - 2004 - 162 pages - Preview
The scholarship to date on performance art has not, she finds, gone far enough in locating the body at the center of the performance, nor has it acknowledged the psychic, emotional, or social costs exacted on that body.Drawing on the work ... - Robert Mitchell, Phillip Thurtle - 2004 - 292 pages - Preview
is an attempt to consider performance art from 1960s wounds to 1990s extensions both with an eye to history and to the future, asking questions such as: which concepts have been inherited from the avant-garde; which are in fact the new ... - Richard Gough, Ric Allsopp, Claire MacDonald - 1997 - 127 pages - Preview
Of course, each government and each court have their own favourites, who know how to look after their business but as a rule they are rather mediocre art practitioners Performance Art does not exist in Poland oficially, ... - Paul Karr, Leslie Brokaw, Marie Morris - 2008 - 704 pages - Preview
Rehearsal tickets $19.T: Green Line E to Symphony, or Orange Line to Mass.Ave. THEATER & PERFORMANCE ART Boston is one of the last cities for pre-Broadway tryouts, allowing an early look at a classic (or classic flop) in the making. ... - Sally Banes - 1998 - 297 pages - Preview
A prescient critic's chronicle of the rise of performance artists Whoopi Goldberg, Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson, and Tim Miller, among others. - Gabrielle H. Cody, Evert Sprinchorn - 2007 - 1721 pages - Preview
By the 1990s, activism and identity politics in performance art embraced ethnicity issues (including the work of ... The Coney Island Sideshow's successful rebirth as a performance art venue gave complex legitimacy to circus- style ... - Rebecca Schneider - 1997 - 237 pages - Preview
What happens when a body is presented as a stage, and dramas unfold across it--is it Performance Art or pornography?The Explicit Bodyexamines the controversial and often shocking issues which surround the use of the female body in ... The transformative power of performance: a new aesthetics
Erika Fischer-Lichte - 2008 - 232 pages - Preview
In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'anart event'in its own right. Caught in the act: an anthology of performance art by Canadian women
Tanya Mars, Johanna Householder - 2004 - 428 pages - Preview
Edited by two seminal Canadian performance artists, this book focuses on the 70s and 80s; a time when women made a big and noisy impact. Staging philosophy: intersections of theater, performance, and ... - Page 94
David Krasner, David Z. Saltz - 2006 - 334 pages - Preview
But since Abacus plainly does not belong to any of the traditional performing arts (that is, it is not a work of ... The context of performance art, a constellation of performance genres pioneered largely by visual artists rather than ... Susan Scutti - 2003 - 232 pages - Preview
chapter 5 Meredith September 2000 Performance Art Outside the windows on the sixty-third floor, the dreary September Performance ... Lizbeth Goodman - 1993 - 313 pages - Preview
performance art which I will discuss in this section is of a certain variety - what I call performance art/theatre - and it ... Performance art/theatre allows for a direct politicization which is difficult to infuse into other kinds of ... Mark J. P. Wolf, Bernard Perron - 2003 - 343 pages - Preview
Performance, and Happenings Art events that are today presented as "performance" refer to the experiments of artists in the 1960s and 1970s (mainly from the visual arts) to establish a nontheatrical Performance Art challenging ... Caught in the act: an anthology of performance art by Canadian women
Tanya Mars, Johanna Householder - 2004 - 428 pages - Preview
Edited by two seminal Canadian performance artists, this book focuses on the 70s and 80s; a time when women made a big and noisy impact. Jon Erickson - 1995 - 245 pages - Preview
Tracing the shift from modernism to postmodernism and the changing perceptions of the artistic object Annette Kuhn, Kirsten Emiko McAllister - 2006 - 285 pages - Preview
Chapter 8 Displaced Events Photographic Memory and Performance Art Nick Kaye The reproduction of a painting or object, however perfect, is always, definitively, its betrayal. And that betrayal is that much greater when it involves not ... Mike Sell - 2008 - 327 pages - Preview
This groundbreaking book examines the role of the scholar and critic in the cultural struggles of radical artists and reveals how avant-garde performance identifies the very limits of critical consideration.
- Paula Orrell - 2010 - 166 pages - No preview
Their use of storytelling, virtual worlds, audience participation, sound, and the body are documented in this illustrated volume. - Linda Montano - 2000 - 537 pages - Preview
This fascinating collection of interviews with performance artists also is one of the best sources for theorizing performance art today. Montano's interviewees ruminate on how food, sex, money/fame, and ritual/death affect their work. - Henry M. Sayre - 1992 - 324 pages - Preview
Looks at the development of American avant-garde art, including performance art, environmental art, conceptual art, video, and photo-realism Frederick Garber - 1995 - 244 pages - Preview
In 'Repositionings' Frederick Garber examines recent readings of the lyric in proposing that performance art and photography present alternatives to traditional lyrical modes. Annemarie Bean - 1999 - 360 pages - Preview
A Sourcebook on African- American Performance: Plays, People, Movements is an attempt to ask Neal's question again ... the revolutionary stage and the college stage; concert dance; community activism; step shows; and performance art. ... Frederick J. Marker, Lise-Lone Marker - 1989 - 252 pages - Preview
Ibsen's Lively Art explores key stage productions and clusters of productions in detail, in an effort to shed new light on the central problems of interpretation governing each of six major Ibsen plays, from a romantic work like Peer Gynt ... Simon Shepherd, Mick Wallis - 2004 - 262 pages - Preview
'Performance' now is an inclusive term covering: performance genres such as music, dance, theatre and performance art; the specific genre of 'performance art'; and a paradigm for the investigation of culture at large. ... William E. Smith - 2005 - 253 pages - Preview
(Turner 1982:86) Culture as Performance Art In considering culture as a performance art, one has to take certain contextual aspects into account: race, economics, spirituality, gender, ... - Laura Cull - 2009 - 282 pages - Preview
This book provides rigorous analyses of Deleuze's writings on theatre practitioners such as Artaud, Beckett and Carmelo Bene, as well as offering innovative readings of historical and contemporary performance including performance art, ... - Kathy O'Dell - 1998 - 128 pages - Preview
Fascinating and accessibly written, CONTRACT WITH THE SKIN addresses the question in relation to psychoanalytic and legal concepts of masochism. 34 photos. - Charles R. Garoian, Yvonne Gaudelius - 2008 - 163 pages - Preview
“The Impossible Task as Ecological Imperative,” the third essay, written the week following the 9/11 attack, explores the impossible, enigmatic, and interventionist strategies of the Chicago-based performance art collective Goat Island, ... - Philip Auslander - 2003 - 416 pages - No preview
This collection reflects not only the multidisciplinary nature of current thinking about performance, but also the complex and contested nature of the concept itself. - Carol Strickland, John Boswell - 2007 - 216 pages - Preview
PERFORMANCE ART. A staged event involving the artist talking, singing, or dancing, Performance Art requires artists to use their bodies in front of an audience. Joseph Beuys walked around a Dusseldorf gallery performing "How to Explain ... - Paul Karr - 1996 - Preview
THEATER & PERFORMANCE ART Boston is one of the last cities for pre-Broadway tryouts, allowing an early look at a classic (or classic flop) in the making. It's also a popular destination for touring companies of established hits. ... - Richard Gough, Claire MacDonald, Ric Allsopp - 1998 - 116 pages - Preview
Contemporary Art.; Nina Felshin broke upl their contn- n , led.l Bit lt lt Art?: The Spirit at Art buttons were only anrf ... Perform. histories on perform- unre anrf 'he Oh/ecf: A Sumy History of Performance Art in the USA since ance, ... - Michael Huxley, Noel Witts - 2002 - 465 pages - Preview
The Twentieth Century Performance Readerprovides a pioneering introduction to all types of performance - dance, drama, music, opera and live art. - Rick Steves, Steve Smith, Gene Openshaw - 2007 - 544 pages - Preview
Conceptual Art: The concept of which object to pair with another to produce maximum effect is the key. (Urine + crucifix = million-dollar masterpiece.) Performance Art: This is a kind of mixed media of live performance. ...
Beth Reiber - 2010 - 672 pages - Preview
THE PERFORMING ARTS For descriptions of Japanese traditional performance arts such as kabuki and noh, see “Japanese Arts in a ... In addition to the performance art listings below, Tokyo also has occasional shows of more avant- garde or ... Carolin Duttlinger, Lucia Ruprecht, Andrew Webber - 2003 - 259 pages - Preview
This volume assembles the select proceedings of an international conference held at the University of Cambridge in March 2002. - Marc Kelly Smith, Joe Kraynak - 2009 - 295 pages - Preview
Offers advice on becoming a performance poet, considering such topics as writing poems for the stage, overcoming stage fright, improving a weak performance, and behaving appropriately at an event. - Danny Busch, Harriët N. Schelhaas - 2006 - 292 pages - Preview
Art. 3:306 BW stipulates that a 'right of action' may be subject to prescription . A 'right of action' is a procedural remedy or action which is used in court, such as an action for specific performance, the termination of the contract, ... - Keith Jenkins, Alun Munslow - 2004 - 352 pages - Preview
Just by being everyday cultural performers in our own times we know that performance art engages the whole body, all the senses, all the emotions. Not just the mind, not just rationality. Performance art has given us a multitude of ... - Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Elaine Peña - 2005 - 304 pages - Preview
Gomez-Pena attempts to make the field accessible and "hip" to young artists arid students by framing performance processes and ... He connects the mainstream bizarre's fraught political undercurrents with performance art and the body. ... - Nina Rapi, Maya Chowdhry - 1998 - 248 pages - Preview
The first volume to focus exclusively on lesbian performance work, Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender, and Performance draws on the experiences and expertise of a wide range of lesbian practitioners and theorists to explore the impact and ... - Edith Almhofer - 1986 - 166 pages - Snippet view
Der vorliegende Band analysiert mit der Performance Art den jüngsten Versuch einer Annäherung von Kunst und Leben. Der Autorin ist mit ihrer exemplarischen Darstellung des Werkes zeitgenössischer Performance- Künstlerinnen eine ...
André Lepecki - 2006 - 150 pages - Preview
This book offers a significant and radical revision of the way we think about dance, arguing for the necessity of a renewed engagement between dance studies and experimental artistic and philosophical practices. - Merriam-Webster, Inc - 2003 - 1623 pages - Preview
... 3 performance art // (1971) : a nontraditional art form often with political or topical themes that typically features a live presentation to an audience or onlookers (as on a street) and draws on such arts as acting, poetry, music, ... - Alison Pearlman - 2003 - 230 pages - Preview
... and treats many other aspects of Grace Jones's own form of performance an, ... The Performance Art of Grace Jones," Art Joumal ... Tseng Kwong Chi that show Grace Jones in hody paint and in the act of performing. 34. ... - Janelle G. Reinelt, Joseph R. Roach - 2007 - 596 pages - Preview
In his study of the development of performance art, for instance, historian of the American avant-garde Henry M. Sayre substitutes the category-resistant term undecidability for pluralism ... - Philip Auslander - 1997 - 173 pages - Preview
On a personal level, From Acting to Performance suggests the course the development of my own interests has followed, ... and the development of performance art, in which artists from non-theatrical backgrounds have brought divergent ... - Carrie Sandahl, Philip Auslander - 2005 - 339 pages - Preview
Bodies in Commotion is the first collection to consider the mutually interpretive qualities of these two emerging fields, producing a dynamic new resource for artists, activists, and scholars. - Marie Morris - 2010 - 320 pages - Preview
($5 or so) if you don't want to sit on the The American Repertory Thea- ter, or ART (pronounced ART) makes its home ... The ART also books Club Oberon, a “ theatrical club space”— think performance art, cabaret, and liquor—at 2 Arrow St . ...
- Randy Martin - 1990 - 211 pages - Preview
Performance art, generally viewed from the audience's perspective, is here seen from the standpoint of the performers because the power of social relations, Martin asserts, lies ultimately in performance. Finally, the body, viewed in ... - C. Carr - 2008 - 367 pages - Preview
The state of performance art in the 80s and 90s, documented by the form's leading critic. - Petra Küppers - 2003 - 176 pages - Preview
Performance and disability An introduction The terms at the heart of this study, performance and disability, hold multiple, contested and partisan ... There are many genealogies and origin-myths that surround both performance art ...
- Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, M. Richard Zinman - 1999 - 220 pages - Preview
seum; in effect, "they" determine what "their" art should be, and this decision is not made by the portion of the ... art ranges from certain genres not easily regarded as belonging to museums, such as performance art, through art (We ... - Richard Gough, Ric Allsopp, Claire MacDonald - 1998 - 117 pages - Preview
His overriding concern is the relationship to art, design, technology, ethics and psychology. ... Media art, performance art, performative design: they must interfere with this everyday aesthetics if they wish to contribute ethically to ... - John Hargraves - 2002 - 204 pages - Preview
Like performance art, her physical presence is required: you must see her as well as hear her to understand (or believe you understand) her art. But this agreement is tentative, and ultimately dissolves into indifference. ...
Sarah Bay-Cheng, Chiel Kattenbelt, Andy Lavender - 2010 - 304 pages - Preview
As McKenzie emphasises, performance always refers to processes of normalisation and subversion. ... a common pattern of performance art in terms of appropriation: artists take a well-known TV format and remodel it in their performance ... Kristine Stiles, Peter Howard Selz - 1996 - 1003 pages - Preview
The principal theorist of happenings, Kaprow studied art history with Meyer Schapiro and later wrote on video, theatrical, and many aspects of performance art. As an art educator and teacher intent to pass on "new values and attitudes ... Mary Warner Marien - 2006 - 544 pages - Preview
Sliced, crumbled, overprinted, underexposed, blurred, and even cameraless photography was welcome in the art world. Once a simple means to record performance art, photography gradually became integral to the initial conception of ... Linda Candy, Ernest A. Edmonds - 2002 - 304 pages - Preview
We also became more aware of the importance of collaboration in art and technology and, therefore, ... the categories of visual art, animation, performance art, interactive installations and work in sound and image correspondence. ... - Jon McKenzie - 2001 - 306 pages - Preview
These include traditional and experimental theater; rituals and ceremonies; popular entertainments, such as parades and festivals; popular, classical, ft tj and experimental dance; avant-garde performance art; oral interpretations v 5 ... - William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Story Donno - 2004 - 170 pages - Preview
Keith Appier, 'Deconstructing the regional theater with "performance art" Shakespeare', Theatre Topics, (March 1095), 35-.W. > Neil Bartlett, 'Underneath your clothes', American Theatre, 9, 4 (July/August iu.u.2), 44. ... - Mary Herczog - 2010 - 336 pages - Preview
(Las Vegas–style revue), The Price is Right • Bellagio: Cirque du Soleil's O ( unique circus-meets-performance-art theatrical experience) • Caesars Palace: Bette Midler (music and variety) and Cher (music and variety) • Excalibur: ...
- Holly Hughes, David Román - 1998 - 481 pages - Preview
0 So/o Homo: An Introductory Conversation DAVID ROMAN: Queer solo performance is booming. ... character-driven monologue, stand-up, "classic" performance art — and artists embody and perform from a wide range of political identities ... - David A. Schlossman - 2002 - 343 pages - Preview
Like Hughes, Miller views his performance art work as activism, arguing that it resists homophobia by presenting positive, visible images of gay communities. For example, when I talked with Tim Miller, he argued that his work does ... - Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince - 2005 - 691 pages - Preview
An iconoclast and nonconformist who made construc- tivist sculpture from trash, he helped form the fluxus group (which rejected the growing commercial gallery scene), and participated in “happenings” of performance art (once, memorably, ...
Matthew Jesse Jackson - 2010 - 316 pages - Preview
... the Bulldozer Exhibition strikes one as an inadvertent piece of performance art, a tragicomic parody of the artist's prophetic and embattled image throughout the history of modern art. How strange—in 1974—for a band of artists to ... Mary Flanagan - 2009 - 353 pages - Preview
“Puppets and Performing Objects in the Twentieth Century.” Performance Art Journal (PAJ): A Journal of Performance and Art 19, no. 2 (1997): 29–46. Bell, Robbie, and Michael Cornelius. Board Games round the World: A Resource Book for ... Mark C. Taylor - 1997 - 354 pages - Preview
This turn of events represents an ironic reversal of the conception art that informed the emergence of modernism. ... From the materiality of earthworks to the ephemerality of video and performance art, artists created works that ... - Geoffrey Hendricks - 2003 - 211 pages - Preview
Critical Mass chronicles this ephemeral work on the Rutgers campus and in New York City, and the innovations that grew from Bob Watts, Allan Kaprow, and George Brecht's "Project in Multiple Dimensions. - - Preview
A few of the many areas of study in which DePaul has distinguished itself include the performing arts, ... Whereas DePaul University has distinguished itself in such fields as education, business, performance art, telecommunications, ... - Elizabeth Canning Blackwell, Michael Austin - 2007 - 320 pages - Preview
O'Rourke Performing Arts Center,Truman College, 1145 W.Wilson Ave. ... Redmoon presents an annual “spectacle,” transforming a public park into a site for performance art, larger-than-life puppet shows, and dramatic visual effects. ... - Michael Bierut, American Institute of Graphic Arts - 1997 - 273 pages - Preview
homage to women's performance art, which had its roots in activism. They underscore the fact that women, like children, are still encouraged to be "seen and not heard." In an unusual example of an early poster employing the female image ... - Mary Herczog - 2005 - 352 pages - Preview
The CAC staggers its shows, so there should always be something worth seeing hanging on the walls; it also presents theater, performance art, dance, and music concerts. Individual exhibitions hang for 6 to 8 weeks, and performances are ... - Patrick Campbell - 2001 - 110 pages - Preview
Drawing variously on the work of Franko B., Orlan, Annie Sprinkle, Karen Finley, and Forced Entertainment, it concludes with a creative piece about a 'Famous New York Performance Artist.
David Brittain - 1999 - 312 pages - Preview
In their different ways, performance art, process art, earth art and, above all, conceptual art, attempted to evade or supersede Modernism as the dominant model for the practice and interpretation of contemporary art. ... Art and laughter - Page 8
Sheri Klein - 2007 - 156 pages - Preview
Many of these artworks include installation art, performance art and public art. Artists in this chapter include Fernando ... Chapter addresses humour through performance art, as in the works of BANK, the Art Guys and Pat Oleszko. ...
- Howell, Anthony (1999), The analysis of performance art: a guide to its theory and practice, Routledge, ISBN 978-9057550850
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