Performance: Live Art Since the '60s

by Roselee Goldberg, Laurie Anderson

Performance breaks the boundaries separating art and life, private and public, custom and taboo. Its anarchic experiments have put it at the forefront of the twentieth-century avant-garde. In the four decades since the 1960s there has been an astonishing increase in the number of its practitioners worldwide, and it has radically influenced and altered not only all the other arts, from theater to music to photography, but is also all-pervasive in popular culture, politics, and social attitudes. Juxtaposing startling images and texts, this book presents for the first time the broadest panorama of this multifaceted and elusive art form. From Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni to Joseph Beuys and Robert Wilson, Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson, Pina Bausch, Matthew Barney, Bill T. Jones, Gilbert & George, Mona Hatoum, and many others, with scores of works from Europe, the Americas, Japan, and Australia, this landmark publication is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in visual culture. 332 illustrations, 123 in color.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

240 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 2004

Reviews

[Lieve]

great overview, was the best of the shelf at the art academies library.

[Alina Tofan]

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[Juhee Jang]

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[Jreimer]

I only give it less than 5 stars because i want more info on everyone in this book. Otherwise this a perfect compendium to the live insanity of performance art over the years. One of the few books I've picked up that has a section on the Viennese Aktionists.