Performance Art in Ireland
Subtitle: A History
Publisher: Intellect, Limited
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781783204281
Subjects: Performance art; Art, irish
Description: This book, the first devoted to the history and contemporary forms of Irish performance art in the north and south of Ireland, brings together contributions by prominent Irish artists and major academic. It features rigorous critical and theoretical analysis as well as historical commentaries that provide an absorbing sense of the rich histories of performance art in Ireland. Presenting diverse visual documentation of performance art practices, this collection shows how performance art in Ireland engaged with - and in turn influences and led - contemporary performance and Live Art internationally.