Synopses & Reviews
Performance art is now at the forefront of contemporary art world-wide and the desire for direct engagement with today's most prominent artists explains its wide appeal to the expanding audience for new art. Artists such as Mariko Mori, Paul McCarthy, Matthew Barney and Forced Entertainment can now be seen in the context of previous innovators, from the Dadaists to Laurie Anderson.
First published in 1979, now extensively updated and expanded, this pioneering book has been supplemented by the definitive account of the current technological, political and aesthetic shifts in performance art.
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First published in 1979, now extensively updated and expanded, this pioneering book has been supplemented by the definitive account of the current technological, political and aesthetic shifts in performance art.
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"RoseLee Goldberg has charted new territory ' a continuousdevelopment of enormous consequence to the most adventuroustwentieth-century art."--Robert Rosenblum
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"A clear and accurate history of . . . a continuous development of enormous consequence to the most adventurous twentieth-century art."--Robert Rosenblum
About the Author
RoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, curator, critic and leading authority on performance art. Among her other books are Laurie Anderson, Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present, and Performance: Live Art Since the 60s.