25 books
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Performance Art Books
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The Family Fang (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.62 — 33,231 ratings — published 2011
Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (World of Art)
by (shelved 5 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.97 — 471 ratings — published 1979
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.55 — 22,042 ratings — published 2016
Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.96 — 228 ratings — published 2024
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,593,800 ratings — published 2022
Activities of Daily Living (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.83 — 992 ratings — published 2022
Psychoanalyst Meets Marina Abramovic: Jeannette Fischer Meets Artist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,055 ratings — published 2019
Unmarked: The Politics of Performance (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.09 — 141 ratings — published 1993
On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.21 — 42 ratings — published 1994
Sanford Meisner on Acting (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,306 ratings — published 1987
Contract With The Skin: Masochism, Performance Art, and the 1970s (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.80 — 35 ratings — published 1998
Angry Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.15 — 819 ratings — published 1991
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,093 ratings — published 2002
When Marina Abramović Dies: A Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.44 — 275 ratings — published 2008
Performance: Live Art Since the '60s (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.06 — 62 ratings — published 2004
Postdramatic Theatre (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.98 — 316 ratings — published 1999
Mujeres Artistas de Los Siglos XX y XXI (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Trapped (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,033 ratings — published
Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,972 ratings — published 1989
Being and Doing: A Workbook for Actors (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.11 — 28 ratings — published 1979
Audition for Your Career, Not the Job: Mastering the On-camera Audition (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.41 — 56 ratings — published 2011
Improvisation for the Theater (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.27 — 713 ratings — published 1963
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.94 — 95,983 ratings — published 2023
Acting for the Camera (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.04 — 444 ratings — published 1986
True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,717 ratings — published 1997
The Actor and the Target (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,154 ratings — published 2000
The Empty Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,003 ratings — published 1968
How to Improvise a Full-Length Play: The Art of Spontaneous Theater (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.17 — 63 ratings — published 2007
An Actor Prepares (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,284 ratings — published 1936
Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.80 — 10 ratings — published
Respect for Acting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,578 ratings — published 1973
The Playwright's Process: Learning the Craft from Today's Leading Dramatists (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.02 — 57 ratings — published 1997
Spoon River Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.01 — 14,596 ratings — published 1915
Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.37 — 771 ratings — published 2003
Self-Management for Actors: Getting Down to (Show) Business
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.40 — 281 ratings — published 2003
The Actor's Life: A Survival Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,691 ratings — published 2017
The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.51 — 943 ratings — published 2008
Winston and the Windsors: How Churchill Shaped a Royal Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.34 — 402 ratings — published
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,555 ratings — published 2025
Canticle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,687 ratings — published 2025
Moriarty: The Great Chaos (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.83 — 271 ratings — published
The Patchwork Players: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel – A Heartwarming Women's Fiction Story of Friendship, Career Choices, and a Quilting Retreat (The Elm Creek Quilts Series, 24)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,310 ratings — published
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.03 — 212,039 ratings — published 1936
Daddy Plays a Mean Guitar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.47 — 36 ratings — published 2026
The World According to Patrick White
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published
Lolly on the Ice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.80 — 44 ratings — published
Sync or Swarm: Improvising Music in a Complex Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.61 — 23 ratings — published 2005
Bound (Bound and Unbound, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.63 — 42,795 ratings — published 2025
On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,684 ratings — published 2025
Nature (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.12 — 50 ratings — published 2012
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