Title: Performance
Subtitle: A Critical Introduction
First published: 1996
Description: *Performance: A Critical Introduction* is the first textbook to provide an overview of the modern concept of performance and how it has developed in various fields. In a highly accessible style, Marvin Carlson introduces the reader to the contested interpretations of performance art as a theatrical activity and to the ways that performance has been understood by ethnographers, anthropologists, linguists, and cultural theorists. The topic he discusses include: 

 - the evolution of performance art since the 1960s 
 - developments of performance as a concept within the various social sciences 
 - the relationships between performance, postmodernism, and the politics of identity.

For any student of performance studies, visual and performing arts or theatre history, *Performance: A Critical Introduction* provides a vital insight into the diverse meanings and uses of performance.
Subjects: American Arts, Arts, American, Arts, Modern, Modern Arts, Performance, Performance art, Performance studies, Theatre history, Visual and performing arts, Arts, united states, Performance art--united states, Arts, american--20th century, Arts, modern--20th century, Nx504 .c35 2003, 700/.973/09045, Arts, modern
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th Century, 20th century
LC classification: NX504 .C35 1996, NX504 .C35 2003