Performance Art : From Futurism to the Present

First published in 1979 and now extensively updated, this pioneering book has been expanded with a definitive account of the technological, political and aesthetic shifts in performance art that mark the early years of the twenty-first century. An astonishing increase in the number of works and venues around the world testifies to this art form as the chosen medium for new generations of artists entering the global conversation of art and culture and for articulating "difference", whether dealing with issues of identity or historical context. The desire for direct engagement with today's most prominent artists explains the wide appeal of performance art to the ever broadening audience for new art. Maruizio Cattelan, Paul McCarthy, Tania Bruguera, Matthey Barney, Patty Chang and Allora and Calzadilla, among many others, can now be seen in the historical context of other innovators in the field from the Futurists and Dadaists to Yves Klein and Laurie Anderson.

With performance now featured in major museums and considered one of the most important artistic forms of the twenty-first century, this is a timely update to the essential guide.

"RoseLee Goldberg has charted new territory by presenting for the first time a clear and accurate history of (...) a continuous development of enormous consequence to the most adventurous twentieth-century art" (Robert Rosenblum)

"It?s my bible" (D. J. Spook)

CONTENIDO:

Foreword

1. Futurism
2. Russian Futurism and Constructivism
3. Dada
4. Surrealism
5. Bauhaus
6. Living Art c.1933 to the 1970s
7. The Art of Ideas and the Media Generation 1968 to 2000
8. The First Decade of the New Century 2001 to 2010

Select Bibliography
Index
Sources of Illustrations