Art Works Perform (Art Works) Jens Hoffmann, Joan Jonas Thames & Hudson, 2005 The third title in Thames & Hudson's major new Art Works series, this 'exhibition in a book' features the work of over 100 artists who examine the place and function of performance in the contemporary world. The book is divided into eight rooms on the themes of: Inside the Box/Outside the Box; Perofrming the Object; Exchange and Transform; Still Life/Tableaux Vivants; Provoking the Everyday; ...             Life, Once More: Forms Of Reenactment In Contemporary Art (Performance Art) Jennifer Allen, Peggy Phelan, ... Witte de With, 2005 These days, the term "reenactment" usually refers to live reconstructions of historic events, often of a military nature, performed by hobbyists. Civil War reenactments are the most popular in the United States, while European enthusiasts most often engage in recreations from the Napoleonic era. Visual art has its own versions. Recent years have brought many reenactments of historic performances ...             Eminem Presents The Anger Management Tour (Edited)1 review Various Artists Aftermath, 2005 Eminem gives a real rap entertaining rap show! with appearences from Obie Trice, D12 & a whole lot of extras. they all help give Eminem a great show! with alot of the rap songs coming from the latest album at the time, "The Eminem Show". the track list goes something like this: Square Dance Business White America Kill You When the Music ...             Performance: Live Art Since 19601 review RoseLee Goldberg Harry N. Abrams, 1998 Ground-breaking book that redefines the study of performance I have been a fan of RoseLee Goldberg's books for years, but she really has out-done herself with this visually stunning book. She has captured the essence of performance pictorially without diluting the "live-art" aspect of it. Some of her chapters could be called mini-performances, themselves. ...             Pornography - The Secret History of Civilisation4 reviews Marilyn Milgrom, Grant Romer Koch Vision, 2006 2000 years of sex!!! + Overall, pretty good + Everything you wanted to know about pornography and didn't know what to ask + It's important ot know your porn history             Still Life B. Franko Black Dog, 2003             Franko B Lois Keidan, Stuart Morgan Black Dog, 2000 With startlingly honest and surprisingly intimate images, noted photographer Nicholas Sinclair documents the work of Franko B, one of today's most provocative performance artists. Infused with a strong sense of outrage, the photographs depict practices cultivated at the margins of the cultural, political, and social framework of contemporary society. It is high-risk art that uses the artist's own ...             Contract With the Skin: Masochism, Performance Art, and the 1970's1 review Kathy O'Dell University of Minnesota Press, 1998 An amazing and insightful look at masochistic art practices! O'Dell's text is one of the few, and quite possibly the best, exploration into the often misunderstood "masochistic" art practices in 1970s America. Covering five artists (Vito Acconci, Ulay & Abramovic, Gina Pane, and Chris Burden), Contract With the Skin offers the reader thought-provoking ...             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 ...             Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World, 194819632 reviews Gavin Butt Duke University Press, 2005 I am not one to gossip, but ... + Great book Gavin Butt, in his new book Between You and Me, takes up artists such as Larry Rivers, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol and their artwork by utilizing "traditional" forms of art-historical research and analysis, but he also utilizes gossip and rumor-those extremely un-academic (anti-academic?) ...             Ana Mendieta: Earth Body2 reviews Olga Viso Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2004 Comprehensive study of the contemporary artist + Ana Mendieta - Artist to take note of. Ana Mendieta was only in her early 40s when she died in 1985. Born in Havana, Cuba, she came to the U. S. as a political refugee with her family when she was 12. Beginning in her artistic training at the U. of Iowa, she incorporated feminist and multicultural leanings into the conceptual art, land ...             Art and Feminism4 reviews Helena Reckitt, Peggy Phelan Phaidon Press, 2001 Excellent Survey and Document of Both Feminism and Art + NUESTRA HISTORIA + Art and Feminism + Brilliant writing and art, beautiful book             The Ends of Performance Peggy Phelan, Jill Lane NYU Press, 1998 Focusing on the living arts--dance, theatre, music, performance art, ritual, and popular entertainment-- performance studies expands our understanding of "performance" as both a vital artistic practice and a means by which to understand social and cultural processes. Bridging the gap between cultural studies, performing arts, and anthropology, performance studies explores myriad ways in which ...             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 ...             Confessions on a Dance Floor1438 reviews Madonna Warner Bros / Wea, 2005 The Queen of Pop + Best Album Ever + Real Dance floor Album + Rock It             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 ...             Of the Presence of the Body: Essays on dance and Performance Theory Wesleyan, 2004 Of the Presence of the Body gathers nine original essays by eminent scholars in the fields of dance and performance studies. Its focus is the historical, cultural and political contexts that inform choreographic and dance practices and critical readings of dance--in other words, how dance operates as critical discourse. The question that runs throughout the essays is the theoretical and political ...             Where Is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile1 review Jane Blocker Duke University Press, 1999 Information Rich, Image Modest Jane Blocker has done an exquisite job of her research and documentation of not only Ana Mendieta, but other realted artists pertaining to related areas of interest. I found this text to be deeply insightful. As one who has recently become interested in the work and life of Ana Mendieta, I found ...             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 ...             Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories1 review Peggy Phelan Routledge, 1997 Blurring the line between performance and criticism A heartfelt and harrowing examination of various cultural elements, as disparate as the Rose Theatre in london to the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings, in which Phelan has found the common thread of the public performance of mourning. "Mourning" for Phelan means not merely the connotative ...