Performance art : from futurism to the present / by RoseLee Goldberg.

First published in 1979, the latest edition of this pioneering study in "the World of Art" series surveys a full century of performance, from the Futurist manifesto of 1909 to the second decade of the new millennium. Art historian and gallery curator Rose Lee Goldberg explains how a medium...

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Main Author: Goldberg, RoseLee
Other title:From futurism to the present.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Thames & Hudson, 2011.
Edition:3rd ed.
Series:World of art.
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Summary:First published in 1979, the latest edition of this pioneering study in "the World of Art" series surveys a full century of performance, from the Futurist manifesto of 1909 to the second decade of the new millennium. Art historian and gallery curator Rose Lee Goldberg explains how a medium once used only in sporadic outbreaks of artistic dissent has become, over the course of a century, a vital and integral part of the contemporary mainstream and a global phenomenon.
Item Description:Originally published in large format as Performance : live art 1909 to the present. First published in paperback in the United States of America by Thames & Hudson Inc., ... New York"--Title page verso."
Physical Description:256 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-252) and index.
ISBN:9780500204047 (pbk.)
0500204047 (pbk.)