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Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange: Vectors of the Radical
Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of “vectors of the radical” shape the avant-garde.
From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art
A study of installation art, from its marginalized beginnings in the late 1950s to its central position in today’s art world.
Body Mécanique: Artistic Explorations of Digital Realms
Exhibition catalogue. 19 September 1999 – 3 January 2000, Wexner Centre for the Arts, The Ohio State University.
Marina Abramović: Cleaning the House
A monograph produced and designed in close collaboration with the artist; forms a personal scrapbook of her life and influences, ranging from Buddhism, the aboriginals of Australia and religious iconography, to Western artists such as Joseph Beuys.
The Uses Of Autobiography
The contributors to this book, writing from a variety of subject disciplines and interests, explore a range of the uses of autobiography from the nineteenth-century to the present day, and from Africa, USA, the Middle East, France, New Zealand, as well as Britain.
The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970S, History and Impact
Since its inception nearly 25 years ago, the feminist art movement has transformed the art world. Now, two professors of art history bring together 18 influential historians, critics, and artists to create this landmark volume.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
On Innovative Performance(s): Three Decades of Recollections on Alternative Theater
A collection of essays from the leading avant-garde critic of the era focuses on individual performances and performers, providing a unique critical record of their work and of the movement.
Acting Out: Feminist Performances
The first book-length introduction to and critical analysis of contemporary feminist performance, from Madonna to Karen Finley to Cherrie Moraga.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
To All Appearances: Ideology and Performance
The author’s concerns – which include the social meaning of illusion and the cultural manifestation of power – take the reader from Eleanora Duse to Laurie Anderson; from the puppet theatre of Kleist to Kantor’s theatre of the dead; and from the Kutiyattam temple dancers in Kerala to Womanhouse in Los Angeles.
If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory and Social Activism
Documents the crisis in American urban housing policies and portrays how artists have fought against government neglect, shortsighted housing policies and unfettered real estate speculation.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
