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Mythologies
Artist/Author: Roland Barthes | Reference: P3577 | ISBN: 978-0099972204 | Type: Publication

A collection of essays exploring the myths of mass culture,

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The Uses Of Autobiography
Editor: Julia Swindells | Reference: P3487 | ISBN: 978-0748403663 | Type: Publication

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.

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Action Plans: Selected Performance Pieces
Artist/Author: Action Hero | Reference: P2788 | ISBN: 978-1-78319-500-8 | Type: Publication

Includes the pieces: Hoke’s Bluff, Slap Talk, Watch Me Fall, A Western, Frontman and Extraordinary Rendition.

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Rosso Vivo: Mutazione, Trasfigurazione e Sangue nell’Arte Contemporanea
Editor: Francesca Alfano Miglietti | Reference: A0602 | Type: Article

Short review of exhibition. Text in Italian with images of works by the artists.

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Joyce
Artist/Author: Ron Athey | Digital Reference: EF5113 | Type: Digital File

Exerpt of 2002 multi-media performance with 3 screen large format video with 4 actors.

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Matthew Barney: River of Fundament
Artist/Author: Okwui Enwezor | Reference: P2566 | ISBN: 978-0847842582 | Type: Publication

On the occasion of a major exhibition, performance, and film premiere, this book considers Matthew Barney's epic seven-year project, an odyssey of death and its mythologies. The book also includes contributions by Jonathan Bepler, Homi K. Bhabha, Hilton Als, as well as facsimiles of the playbills produced for the related live performances.

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The Space Between - Collected Writings
Artist/Author: Michael Bracewell | Editor: Doro Globus | Reference: P1947 | ISBN: 978-1905464388 | Type: Publication

Collection of Michael Bracewell’s writing on art.

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