Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present: 0 (World of Art) - Softcover

Goldberg, RoseLee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500204047 ISBN 13: 9780500204047

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

First published in 1979, the latest edition of this pioneering study in the World of Art series surveys a full century of performance, from the Futurist manifesto of 1909 to the second decade of the new millennium. Art historian and gallery curator Rose Lee Goldberg explains how a medium once used only in sporadic outbreaks of artistic dissent has become, over the course of a century, a vital and integral part of the contemporary mainstream and a global phenomenon.

Table of Contents

Foreword (1) Futurism (2) Russian Futurism and Constructivism (3) Dada (4) Surrealism (5) Bauhaus (6) Living Art c. 1933 to the 1970s (7) The Art of Ideas and the Media Generation 1968 to 2000 (8) The First Decade of the New Century: 2001–2010

About this title

Product Description:

First published in 1979, the latest edition of this pioneering study in "the World of Art" series surveys a full century of performance, from the Futurist manifesto of 1909 to the second decade of the new millennium. Art historian and gallery curator Rose Lee Goldberg explains how a medium once used only in sporadic outbreaks of artistic dissent has become, over the course of a century, a vital and integral part of the contemporary mainstream and a global phenomenon.

Review:

'It's my bible' - D.J. Spooky

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0500204047
• ISBN 13: 9780500204047
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 256