Performance art
Subtitle: from futurism to the present
By: by RoseLee Goldberg
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: Thames & Hudson world of art; World of art
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780500204047
Subjects: Performance art; Group work in art; Modern Arts
Other titles: From futurism to the present
Description: 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.
Notes: 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"--T.p. verso.

Previous published as Performance : live art since 1960. New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1998.   Previously published as a rev. & expanded ed. as Performance art : from futurism to the present. New York : Thames & Hudson, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-252) and index.
Table of contents: title: Futurism; title: Russian futurism and constructivism; title: Dada; title: Surrealism; title: Bauhaus; title: Living art c. 1933 to the 1970's; title: The art of ideas and the media generation 1968 to 2000; title: The first decade of the new century 2001 to 2010.