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An Anecdoted Topography of Chance
The “Artists' Book” of the post-war period: a unique collaborative work by four artists associated with various avant-garde art movements, including Fluxus and Nouveau Réalisme.
Performance in Contemporary Art
Proposes that performance is not a genre of art separate from object making but rather an attitude that has infiltrated the entire terrain of contemporary art.
Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts
This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it–to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruses, screams, and bestial cries.
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.
Performance by Artists
A collection of essays, documents, & bibiliography reagrding performance art edited by people associated with a Toronto-based arts organization.
Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists
This book brings to light the historical significance of five women artists – Yoko Ono, Yayoi Kusama, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, and Shigeko Kubota, who were among the first Japanese women to leave their country – and its male-dominated, conservative art world – to explore the artistic possibilities in New York.
Environments and Happenings
Poet and painter Adrian Henri gives an account of the origins of ‘total art’ followed by fully documented chapters on the American environmental tradition of Kaprow, Oldenburgh, Warhol, Kienholz and many others.
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
Action Art: A Bibliography of Artist’s Performance from Futurism to Fluxus and Beyond
A comprehensive bibliography of writings on 'Action Art' in the twentieth century.
Explosion! Painting as Action
Explosion! Painting as Action encompasses an array of approaches to looking at the borderland between painting and performance, covering a whole range of playful experiments to aggressive risk-taking. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, in 2012.
This is not Art : Activism and Other ‘Not-Art’
A retelling the history of art practice and exposing the ways in which neoliberal norms and values have seeped into every aspect of our lives.
