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Performance now / RoseLee Goldberg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Thames & Hudson, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 271 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780500021255
Other title:
  • Performance now : live art for the 21st century
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 700.411 22 GOL
Contents:
Chapter 1. Performance as visual art -- Chapter 2. World citizenship : performance as a global language -- Chapter 3. Radical action : on performance and politics -- Chapter 4. Dance after choreography -- Chapter 5. Off stage : new theatre -- Chapter 6. Performing architecture.
Summary: This major survey charts the development of live art across six continents since the turn of the twenty-first century, revealing how it has become an increasingly essential vehicle for communicating ideas across the globe in the new millennium. 'Performance Now' offers an unprecedented illustrated survey of this temporal medium which is notoriously hard to document, written by respected curator, art historian, and critic RoseLee Goldberg. Six chapters cover different themes of performance art, such as beauty, global citizenship, and activism, as well as its intersection with other media including film and technology, dance, theater and architecture, interspersed with illustrated profiles of some of the world's best-known performance artists, including Maria Abramovic, Matthew Barney, and Laurie Simmons. Extended captions assess the importance of specific works in context.
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Includes index.

Chapter 1. Performance as visual art -- Chapter 2. World citizenship : performance as a global language -- Chapter 3. Radical action : on performance and politics -- Chapter 4. Dance after choreography -- Chapter 5. Off stage : new theatre -- Chapter 6. Performing architecture.

This major survey charts the development of live art across six continents since the turn of the twenty-first century, revealing how it has become an increasingly essential vehicle for communicating ideas across the globe in the new millennium. 'Performance Now' offers an unprecedented illustrated survey of this temporal medium which is notoriously hard to document, written by respected curator, art historian, and critic RoseLee Goldberg. Six chapters cover different themes of performance art, such as beauty, global citizenship, and activism, as well as its intersection with other media including film and technology, dance, theater and architecture, interspersed with illustrated profiles of some of the world's best-known performance artists, including Maria Abramovic, Matthew Barney, and Laurie Simmons. Extended captions assess the importance of specific works in context.

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