Out of actions
Subtitle: between performance and the object, 1949-1979
By: [organized by Paul Schimmel] ; with essays by Kristine Stiles ... [et al.].
Contributors: Stiles, Kristine.; Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Publisher: The Museum of Contemporary Art; Thames and Hudson
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Los Angeles; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
Subjects: Performance art -- Exhibitions; Performance art -- Influence -- Exhibitions; Action in art -- Exhibitions; Arts, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, Feb. 8-May 10, 1998 and four other institutions.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Leap into the void : performance and the object -- Paul Schimmel; title: Body and place : action in postwar art in Japan -- Shinichiro Osaki; title: Gesture and the object : liberation as aktion : a European component of performative art -- Huber Klocker; title: Life strategies : overview and selection Buenos Aires-London-Rio de Janeiro-Santiago de Chile, 1960-1980 -- Guy Brett; title: Uncorrupted Joy : international art actions -- Kristine Stiles.