Performance Art: From Futurism to the PresentFirst published in 1979 and now extensively updated, this pioneering book has been expanded with a definitive account of the technological, political and aesthetic shifts in performance art that mark its transition to the twenty-first century. An astonishing increase in the number of works and venues around the world testifies to this art form as the chosen medium for articulating "difference," whether dealing with issues of identity, multiculturalism or globalism. The desire for direct engagement with today's most prominent artists explains the wide appeal of performance art to the ever broadening audience for new art. Mariko Mori, Paul McCarthy, and Matthew Barney, as well as the groups Forced Entertainment and Desperate Optimists, among many others, can now be seen in the historical context of other innovators in the field from the Dadaists to Laurie Anderson. Book jacket. |
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User Review - RKC-Drama - LibraryThingFirst published in 1979, the latest edition of this pioneering study in the World of Art series surveys a full century of performance, from the Futurist manifesto of 1909 to the second decade of the ... Read full review
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This is one of the most thorough books on the subject of performance Art! It is a book that you will want to re-read here and there for the rest of your life.
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Contents
Contents | 7 |
Russian Futurism and Constructivism | 31 |
Dada | 75 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present Times mirror books World of art library World of art |
| Author | RoseLee Goldberg |
| Edition | illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | H.N. Abrams, 1988 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Apr 2, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0810923718, 9780810923713 |
| Length | 216 pages |
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