Product Description: The fifth volume in the acclaimed series by performance art historian RoseLee Goldberg, Performa 13 features projects from more than 120 of the leading artists working in performance today, in collaboration with more than 100 curators and arts institutions--works that broke down the boundaries between visual art, music, dance, poetry, fashion, architecture, graphic design and the culinary arts...read more

Product Description: Performa 11 is the fourth volume in an acclaimed series that draws content and inspiration from the world-renowned Performa biennials. Written by legendary performance art historian RoseLee Goldberg, Performa 11 is the definitive document of the Performa 11 biennial, and features documentation by the 150 artists who took part, including Robert Ashley, Tarek Atoui, Gerard Byrne, Simon Fujiwara, Guy Maddin, Ming Wong, Shirin Neshat and Frances Stark...read more

Product Description: RoseLee Goldberg amazed with PERFORMA 05, billed as the city's first biennial of 'visual art performance.' Working with a tiny staff, a shoestring budget and no institutional affiliation, Ms. Goldberg put together a program that covered a lot of aesthetic bases--old school, just out of school, high-tech, no-tech--and encompassed more than 60 scheduled events… all of which makes the prospect of PERFORMA 07 shine with promise...read more

An exploration of visual culture and live performance art by the organizer of the 'Six Evenings of Performance' exhibit considers the work of such contributors as Yves Klein, Gilbert & George, and others, in a study that also considers the form's pervasiveness in popular culture and politics. Reprint.

Product Description: The first book on important British ceramicist Carol McNicoll (b.1943), best known for her imaginative interpretation of the vessel-making tradition. Examining the development of McNicoll's career, this book places her work in the context of the art, fashion and music scene of 1970s London...read more

Product Description: In Shirin Neshat's photographs, Persian calligraphic script is transcribed over black and white depictions of the exposed faces, hands and feet of Iranian women. In her video works, swarms of women in black hijabs ululate, or a man in a white dress shirt and black pants sings to an all-male audience, while a lone woman sings to herself in a darkened theater...read more

Looks at the history of performance art, discusses Futurism, Constructiveism, Dada, Surrealism, and the Bauhaus, and identifies themes of modern performance art

Filled with images from the artists many shows and performances, this unique book celebrates Anderson's many films, videos, sculptures, paintings, and concerts, as well as her collaborations with William Burroughs, Spalding Gray, Lou Reed, and others.

Through words and stunning photographs, the author of Performance: Live Art 1909 to the Present demonstrates the depth and breadth of modern performance and its profound impact on every other form of contemporary art. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Abramovic, Marina, Goldberg, Roselee, McEvilley, Thomas, Elliott, David

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.'