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Performance : live art since 1960

By: Publication details: London : Thames and Hudson, 1998.Description: 240 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cmISBN:
  • 9780500018750
  • 0500018758
  • 9780810943605
  • 0810943603
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Contents:
1. Performance, politics, real life -- 2. theater, music, opera -- 3. The body: ritual, living sculpture, performed photography -- 4. Identities: feminism, multiculturalism, sexuality -- 5. Dance -- 6. Video, rock 'n' roll, the spoken word.
Summary: This is a complete illustrated survey of Performance art from the 1960s to the present. The book presents performance art from its first emergence in the work of Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni and Happenings, to the work of Hermann Nitsch, Joseph Beuys and the extraordinary opera spectacles of Robert Wilson; and from the breakthrough performances by Laurie Anderson that brought this art form to a wider public, to the theatricality of works by Pina Bausch.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General NX 456 PER GOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0009045

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Performance, politics, real life -- 2. theater, music, opera -- 3. The body: ritual, living sculpture, performed photography -- 4. Identities: feminism, multiculturalism, sexuality -- 5. Dance -- 6. Video, rock 'n' roll, the spoken word.

This is a complete illustrated survey of Performance art from the 1960s to the present. The book presents performance art from its first emergence in the work of Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni and Happenings, to the work of Hermann Nitsch, Joseph Beuys and the extraordinary opera spectacles of Robert Wilson; and from the breakthrough performances by Laurie Anderson that brought this art form to a wider public, to the theatricality of works by Pina Bausch.

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