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To Reach the Clouds by Philippe Petit Publisher Comments An artist of the air re-creates his six-year plot to pull off an act of incomparable beauty and imagination One late-summer day, a feat of unimaginable audacity was perpetrated on the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The year was 1974. A hundred... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith by Cherise Smith Publisher Comments The artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed. Cherise Smith analyzes their complex engagements with issues of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Urban Exile: Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr. by Harry Jr Gamboa Publisher Comments The art of Harry Gamboa Jr. encompasses photography, video, performance, installation, essays, fiction, poetry, and lesser-known forms of his own creation.<P>Working in the tradition of Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett, Gamboa has pioneered... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art by Doug Hall Publisher Comments Illuminating Video is the most comprehensive collection of essays on video art, as well as an essential text for the general reader interested in new visual forms. It is a significant resource for anyone who is involved in new media, video art, art... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (World of Art) by Roselee Goldberg Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Artist's Body by Tracey Warr Publisher Comments The artist's body has throughout history been the subject of art -- primarily through painted self-portraiture. In the post-war period, however, artists began using their bodies as the subject and the actual material of the artwork itself, through such... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Hit & Run: Interventions, Performances Throughout Istanbul by Thomas Puetz Publisher Comments For a month in the summer of 2004, Istanbul was the site of a series of concise public performance events designed to stimulate political and artistic discussion about the city's sometimes tumultuous role as a bridge between Europe and Asia. Color... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now by Rudolf Frieling Publisher Comments The first fully illustrated survey of participatory art and its key practitioners, published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This new survey covers the rich and varied history of participatory art, from early happenings and... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Hardcover
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Multimedia Performance by Edward Scheer Publisher Comments A comprehensive overview of the development, theory and characteristics of multimedia performance, that introduces key artists, practice and debates. The book describes new and emergent forms, presenting an up-to-date account of the evolving relationship... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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People Like Us the Gossip of Colin Campbell by Jon Davies Publisher Comments Overview of the career of the influential video artist Colin Campbell in the 1970s.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $17.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas by Diana Taylor Publisher Comments In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. From plays to official events to grassroots protests, performance, she argues, must be... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Eiko & Koma: Time Is Not Even, Space Is Not Empty by Joan Rothfuss Publisher Comments Operating at the intersections of dance, art and performance for nearly 40 years, acclaimed Japanese movement/performance artists Eiko & Koma have built up an enormously influential body of movement-theater productions, including theatrically staged... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Trade Paper
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Acting Out: Feminist Performances by Lynda Hart Synopsis The first book-length introduction to and critical analysis of contemporary feminist performance, from Madonna to Karen Finley to Cherrie Moraga... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century by Guillerm Gomez Pena Publisher Comments Poetry. Latin American Studies. THE NEW WORLD BORDER is a new collection of essays, poems, and performance text through which Gomez-Pena muses on matters of race, nationality, language, and identity. The book is a carnivalesque inversion of ethnic and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Living Thearte: Art, Exile, and Outrage by John Tytell Synopsis The most radical, uncompromising, and experimental group in American theatrical history, the Living Theatre was flamboyant and daring both onstage and off. It attracted attention worldwide, violated many of the taboos of culture and government, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Conversations Across Borders (11 Edition) by Guillermo Gomez-pena Publisher Comments For the last fifteen years, performance artist and writer Guillermo Gómez-Peña has led a series of ongoing conversations with cultural luminaries from both North and South America. These dialogues with theorists, curators... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $36.80 New - Hardcover
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Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties by Linda Montano Publisher Comments Performance artist Linda Montano, curious about the influence childhood experience has on adult work, invited other performance artists to consider how early events associated with sex, food, money/fame, or death/ritual resurfaced in their later work... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Laurie Anderson: Nothing in My Pockets by Laurie Anderson Synopsis Laurie Anderson's Nothing in My Pockets is a two-part sound diary, originally broadcast on French radio, kept between July 4 and October 4, 2003. This volume contains the radio piece on two CDs, as well as a selection of original visual documents... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $14.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Text, Action and Space #1: Exploring Textual Action by Anders M Gullestad Publisher Comments Exploring Textual Action questions how we analyse works of art after the performative turn and shows how the interplay of performativity (textual action), space and topography, and the converging of genres and art forms is essential in modern drama... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $32.00 Used - Trade Paper
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This Is Performance Art by Mel Brimfield Synopsis Mel Brimfield's complex practice takes a skewed and tangled romp through the already vexed historiography of performance art, simultaneously revealing and inventing a rich history of collaboration between artists, dancers, theater makers, political... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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