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The Family Fang (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.62 — 33,422 ratings — published 2011
Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (World of Art)
by (shelved 5 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.96 — 474 ratings — published 1979
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.54 — 22,889 ratings — published 2016
Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.97 — 255 ratings — published 2024
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,643,124 ratings — published 2022
Activities of Daily Living (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,005 ratings — published 2022
Psychoanalyst Meets Marina Abramovic: Jeannette Fischer Meets Artist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,078 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 — 3,343 ratings — published 1987
Contract With The Skin: Masochism, Performance Art, and the 1970s (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.78 — 36 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 3.97 — 127,787 ratings — published 2002
When Marina Abramović Dies: A Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.44 — 278 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 3.97 — 322 ratings — published 1999
Hollow Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.76 — 152 ratings — published
Ask an Agent: Brutally Answered Questions for Actors of All Stages (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.40 — 20 ratings — published
Klimt (Basic Art)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.17 — 26,740 ratings — published 1992
Northanger Abbey: An Audible Original Drama (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.19 — 819 ratings — published 2017
Angels in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.30 — 24,810 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 4.12 — 47 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 — 3,747 ratings — published
Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,019 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 — 716 ratings — published 1963
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.94 — 102,538 ratings — published 2023
Acting for the Camera (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.04 — 448 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 — 2,733 ratings — published 1997
The Actor and the Target (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,184 ratings — published 2000
The Empty Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,057 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 — 65 ratings — published 2007
An Actor Prepares (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,336 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 — 3,624 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 4.00 — 14,938 ratings — published 1915
Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.37 — 774 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 — 9,753 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 — 959 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 — 474 ratings — published
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,751 ratings — published 2025
Canticle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.86 — 7,762 ratings — published 2025
Moriarty: The Great Chaos (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.81 — 368 ratings — published
“Where words end, eyes begin, and hands weave timeless stories, that's the art of Kathakali.”
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