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Unlimited Action: The performance of extremity in the 1970s
It examines the ‘performance of extremity’ as practices at the limits of the histories of performance and art, in performance art’s most fertile and prescient decade, the 1970s. Dominic Johnson recounts and analyses game-changing performance events by six artists: Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Genesis P-Orridge, Anne Bean, the Kipper Kids, and Stephen Cripps.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Performing Endurance: Art and Politics since 1960
Examining a range of performances from the 1960s to the present, as well as protest actions from the lunch counter sit-ins of the US civil rights movement to protest camps in the twenty-first century, this book provides a formal account of endurance and illuminates its ethical and political significance.
David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night
Comprehensively examines the life and art of David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992), who came to prominence in New York’s East Village art world of the 1980s, actively embracing all media and forging an expansive range of work both fiercely political and highly personal.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Michael Mayhew collection
Includes documentation of:
– Someting Tender
– 3 : 3: 3
– For Always
Still Life Issue 3
Third issue of the online and printed zine about relationships and configurations in which one person is still while others are not.
Body of Art
The first book to explore the various ways the human body has been both an inspiration and a medium for artists over hundreds of thousands of years.
Posthuman Spiritualities in Contemporary Performance: Politics, Ecologies and Perceptions
Examines five performance/artworks: The Artist is Present (2010) by Marina Abramović; The Deer Shelter Skyscape (2007) by James Turrell; CAT (1998) by Ansuman Biswas; Journey to the Lower World by Marcus Coates (2004); and the work with pollen by Wolfgang Laib.
Psychoanalyst Meets Marina Abramovic: Artist meets Jeannette Fischer
A unique insight into the relationship between Abramovic’s biography and artistic work.
Performing Bodies in Pain: Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists
Analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in late-medieval France and the twenty-first century, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Enduring Creation: Art, Pain, and Fortitude
Nigel Spivey takes on one of the greatest taboos in Western culture in this original work of cultural history: why is so much pain depicted in the art of the West?
