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The Family Fang (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.62 — 33,326 ratings — published 2011
Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (World of Art)
by (shelved 5 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.96 — 473 ratings — published 1979
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.55 — 22,356 ratings — published 2016
Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.95 — 240 ratings — published 2024
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,620,795 ratings — published 2022
Activities of Daily Living (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.83 — 998 ratings — published 2022
Psychoanalyst Meets Marina Abramovic: Jeannette Fischer Meets Artist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,069 ratings — published 2019
Unmarked: The Politics of Performance (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.09 — 142 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 — 3,327 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 — 820 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 — 124,159 ratings — published 2002
When Marina Abramović Dies: A Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.44 — 277 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 — 318 ratings — published 1999
Klimt (Basic Art)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.17 — 26,396 ratings — published 1992
Northanger Abbey: An Audible Original Drama (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.19 — 809 ratings — published 2017
Angels in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.30 — 24,637 ratings — published 1991
This Modern Love Now: On Dating, Relationships and Love - From the #1 Bestselling Author (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.52 — 29 ratings — published
The Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.17 — 12 ratings — published 1989
Andre Cadere : all walks of life. (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1992
Piero Manzoni (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published 1989
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 3.70 — 3,455 ratings — published
Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,998 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 4.40 — 57 ratings — published 2011
Improvisation for the Theater (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.27 — 715 ratings — published 1963
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.94 — 99,226 ratings — published 2023
Acting for the Camera (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.04 — 446 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 — 2,725 ratings — published 1997
The Actor and the Target (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,169 ratings — published 2000
The Empty Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,033 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 — 64 ratings — published 2007
An Actor Prepares (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,310 ratings — published 1936
Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.91 — 11 ratings — published
Respect for Acting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,601 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 — 14,764 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 — 9,722 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 4.50 — 952 ratings — published 2008
Winston and the Windsors: How Churchill Shaped a Royal Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.36 — 443 ratings — published
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,659 ratings — published 2025
Canticle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.86 — 7,320 ratings — published 2025
Moriarty: The Great Chaos (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.80 — 334 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 3.74 — 1,559 ratings — published
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.03 — 214,369 ratings — published 1936
“Performance art is different. I meet things directly. I see death and lust in audience’s eyes. Depending on what I see in their eyes, my work changes immediately. If the purpose of art is to confront beauty, especially live beauty, aren’t all other artistic forms fake? They are compromises and the residue of the desire for useless immortality. All criticism of performance art starts with the fear of true beauty. People preserve beauty because of their obsession with immortality. They are slaves of dead art.”
― I Have The Right To Destroy Myself
― I Have The Right To Destroy Myself
“I'm like a circus standing on two legs.”
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