Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (World of Art)4 reviews Roselee Goldberg Thames & Hudson, 2001 A must-read! + Important book with some inaccuracies + history of performance Goldberg's is an excellent, well-researched, and interesting text that documents the history of a most misunderstood medium: performance art. Proceeding in a sure-footed way from the early, combative, theatrical efforts of the Italian Futurists, then to Dadaism, then on to the dances of Oskar ...             English Is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas1 review Coco Fusco New Press, 1995 La Authentic Santera Coco Fusco writes about culture and identity with keen insight, wit and passion. I take the title for this review from one of her own performance pieces in which she describes herself as Yoruba-Taino-Catalan-Sephardic-Neopolitan-Cuban-American. She notes wryly, "In the 1990s that makes me ...             Performance: Live Art Since the '60s Roselee Goldberg Thames & Hudson, 2004 Juxtaposing starling images and texts, this book presents for the first time the broadest panorama of this multi-faceted artform. From Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni to Joseph Beuys, Robert Wilson, Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson, Pina Bausch, Matthew Barney, Bill T. Jones, Gilbert and George, Mona Hatoum and many others, with scores of works from Europe, the Americas, Japan and Australia, this is a ...             Unmarked: The Politics of Performance Peggy Phelan Routledge, 1993 As feminist film theory has made clear, representational visibility has psychic and political limitations. Simply being in the public eye does not guarantee access to power. Still, among the Left and within the field of cultural/performance studies, there is an almost ubiquitous assumption that visibility is a crucial aspect of progressive struggle. In Unmarked , Peggy Phelan looks at the ...             Analysis of Performance Art: A Guide to its Theory and Practice (Contemporary Theatre Studies) Anthony Howell Routledge, 1999 Performance art is a unique movement which first became popular in the 1950s, this finely illustrated text is the first of its kind to outline the essential characteristics for students of contemporary theatre and performance. Examples are cited from leading performance groups and practitioners such as Bobbie Baker, Orlan, Stelarc, Annie Sprinkle, Robert Wilson, Goat Island, and Station House ...             Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas Coco Fusco Routledge, 1999 Corpus Delecti is an unprecedented event in the history of Latino performance art. Assembled and edited by one of the foremost practitioners and theorists in the field, it charts the extraordinary range of practices, narratives and theories which make up this unique area of contemporary performance. Using photos, scripts, essays and poetry, Corpus Delecti explores the impact on performance of ...             Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (Cultural Studies of the Americas, V. 2)5 reviews Jose Esteban Munoz, Munoz Jose University of Minnesota Press, 1999 Certain to Become a Seminal Influence + love this book and its author! + Ground-breaking Scholarship in Queer Studies This is a crucial book. It was written by a gay Cuban man who teaches in New York City though he grew up on the suburban lawns that grow on the drained swamp lands of South Florida. The book is all about how artists of color build subjectivities from the suffocating madness of neo-coloniality. We ...             The Artist's Body (Themes and Movements)2 reviews Tracey Warr Phaidon Press, 2000 ECCE HOMO + The Artist's Body THE ARTIST'S BODY is one of the finer compilations of an art form that drew attention from the press, museum curators, the public, the critics and fellow artists, probably more intensely focused than any other 'art movement' of the 20th Century. In this well documented and copiously illustrated ...             After Criticism: New Responses to Art and Performance (New Interventions in Art History) Wiley-Blackwell, 2004 It has recently become apparent that criticism has fallen on hard times. Either commodification is deemed to have killed it off, or it has become institutionally routine. This book explores contemporary approaches which have sought to renew criticism's energies in the wake of a 'theatrical turn' in recent visual arts practice, and the emergence of a 'performative' arts writing over the past ...             Performing the Body/Performing the Text Amelia Jones Routledge, 1999 Since the 1960s, visual art practices--from body art to minimalism--have taken contemporary art outside the museum and gallery by embracing theatricality and performance and exploding the boundaries set by traditional art criticism. Such practices prompt us to reassess our ways of contructing meaning from art, making us receptive to the element of performance both in the processes of art ...             The Explicit Body in Performance3 reviews Rebecca Schneider Routledge, 1997 An Exquisite Performance + Brilliant combo of theory and practice A great survey of the 1980s performance art scene, the era of Annie Sprinkle, Karen Finley, Carolee Schneeman, even Sandra Bernhard and RuPaul. Scheider's book is both personally compelling and theoretically rich. She was obviously in New York City for the 80s, catching the downtown performances ...             On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century C. Carr Wesleyan, 1993 Through her engaged and articulate essays in the Village Voice, C. Carr has emerged as the cultural historian of the New York underground and the foremost critic of performance art. On Edge brings together her writings to offer a detailed and insightful history of this vibrant brand of theatre from the late 70s to today. It represents both Carr's analysis as a critic and her testament as a ...             The Bodies That Were Not Ours: And Other Writings Coco Fusco Routledge, 2001 Interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco is one of North America's leading interpreters of intercultural theory and practice. This volume gathers together her finest writings since 1995 and includes critical essays by Jean Fisher and Caroline Vercoe that interpret her work. Engaging and provocative, these essays, interviews, performance scripts and fotonovelas take readers on a tour of ...             The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century (October Books)6 reviews Hal Foster The MIT Press, 1996 How can this be anything but five stars! + excellent analysis ensured by rich Aesthetic knowledge + Very productive reading + helpful and interesting book             In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art Meiling Cheng University of California Press, 2002 Performance art and Los Angeles, two subjects spectacularly resistant to definitions, illuminate each other in this searching study by Meiling Cheng. A marginal artistic pursuit by choice as well as necessity, performance art has flourished in and about "multicentric" Los Angeles for nearly four decades, finding its own centers of activity, moving and changing as the margins have reconstituted ...             Live: Art and Performance A. Heathfield Routledge, 2004 Live Art, or performance, is one of the most controversial and hotly discussed areas of art practice to emerge in the second half of the twentieth century. The history of Live Art is one of challenge to audiences, art traditions and cultural values. With elements of performance now part of the practice of many of today's best-known artists, and boundaries between visual art, theatre and live art ...             Body Art/Performing the Subject8 reviews Amelia Jones University of Minnesota Press, 1998 Thinking bodies + excellent book + an artist responds BODY ART/PERFORMING THE SUBJECT offers an excellent critique of a fascinating phenomenon in contemporary art: the artist's voluntary use of her/his body in art. In this superb and much-needed book, Amelia Jones defines body art "as a set of performative practices that, through such ...             After Criticism: New Responses to Art and Performance (New Interventions in Art History) Wiley-Blackwell, 2004 It has recently become apparent that criticism has fallen on hard times. Either commodification is deemed to have killed it off, or it has become institutionally routine. This book explores contemporary approaches which have sought to renew criticism's energies in the wake of a 'theatrical turn' in recent visual arts practice, and the emergence of a 'performative' arts writing over the past ...             Live: Art and Performance A. Heathfield Routledge, 2004 Live Art, or performance, is one of the most controversial and hotly discussed areas of art practice to emerge in the second half of the twentieth century. The history of Live Art is one of challenge to audiences, art traditions and cultural values. With elements of performance now part of the practice of many of today's best-known artists, and boundaries between visual art, theatre and live art ...             The Explicit Body in Performance3 reviews Rebecca Schneider Routledge, 1997 An Exquisite Performance + Brilliant combo of theory and practice A great survey of the 1980s performance art scene, the era of Annie Sprinkle, Karen Finley, Carolee Schneeman, even Sandra Bernhard and RuPaul. Scheider's book is both personally compelling and theoretically rich. She was obviously in New York City for the 80s, catching the downtown performances ...