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Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg: Art, Happenings, and Cultural Politics by Robert E. Haywood
RRP: $89.25$76.88This new interpretation of the structure and meaning of the Happenings produced by Allan Kaprow (1927-2006) and Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) in the late 1950s and 1960s sheds light on the context, theoretical framework, and working practice unique to this... -
Body and Performance by Sandra Reeve 9781909470163
RRP: $42.00$31.2512 contemporary approaches to the human body that are being used by performers or in the context of performance training. The second in a series of books entitled: Ways of Being a Body. Following on from Sandra Reeve's Nine Ways of Seeing a Body (which... -
Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978-1983 by Ronald S. Magliozzi
RRP: $73.50$49.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450301Author Ron MagliozziFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 1080g -
Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action by Nadja Millner-Larsen
RRP: $58.80$57.52A history of 1960s activist art group Black Mask. With Up Against the Real, Nadja Millner-Larsen offers the first comprehensive study of the group Black Mask and its acrimonious relationship to the New York art world of the 1960s. Cited as pioneers of... -
(toward) a phenomenology of acting Phillip Zarrilli 9781138777682
RRP: $77.68$69.15In (toward) a phenomenology of acting, Phillip Zarrilli considers acting as a 'question' to be explored in the studio and then reflected upon.This book is a vital response to Jerzy Grotowski's essential question: "How does the actor 'touch that which is... -
Pain in the Arts by John Tusa
$120.73Over a distinguished career in cultural leadership, management and journalism spanning almost 30 years, John Tusa has amassed a unique experience of the arts world, the political controversies it faces and the battles it continues to fight. His new book... -
Guidebook for an Armchair Pilgrimage: 2019 by John Schott 9781911193593
RRP: $31.50$26.38Phil Smith (Crabman/Mythogeography) and Tony Whitehead join forces with master photographer John Schott to lead readers on a `virtual' journey to explore difference and change on their way to an unknown destination. "What is most real is what you... -
The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance by Vincenzo de Bellis
RRP: $111.30$76.29How performance has transformed the status of the art object, in works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Oskar Schlemmer, Robert Morris and more Presenting works from the early 20th century to today, The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance... -
Dracula & Frankenstein: Two Horror Plays by Lisa Evans 9781849431859
$28.54Dracula and Frankenstein: Two Horror Plays brings together two classic horror tales updated for the 21st century and adapted for the stage by two of Britain's leading playwrights. Bram Stoker's Dracula adapted by Bryony Lavery: This is the modern... -
Performance Art in Practice: Pedagogical Approaches by Aapo Kustaa Korkeaoja 9781789388541
RRP: $62.90$55.97Performance Art in practice - pedagogical approaches opens up a variety of philosophies that explore, explain and challenge Performance art and introduces a range of practices used in higher level education. The book is a collection of nine... -
Transmissions by Nick Mauss
RRP: $52.50$43.93An aesthetic and social history of art and dance in mid-20th-century New York interpreted by contemporary artist Nick Mauss Over the past decade, Nick Mauss (b. 1980) has pursued a hybrid mode of working that melds the roles of curator, artist, and... -
Inside Killjoy's Kastle: Dykey Ghosts, Feminist Monsters, and Other Lesbian Hauntings by Allyson Mitchell
RRP: $67.20$59.24Hundreds of years of ridicule, persecution, erasure, misunderstanding, and institutionalization could put anyone in a bad mood. Killjoy invites you into her kastle for a queer exorcism and celebration of the past.Lesbian feminist histories can have a... -
Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture by Dominic Johnson 9780719091476
RRP: $41.98$36.98Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith's work offers critical strategies for rethinking art's histories after 1960... -
Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama-Manhattan, 1970-1980 by Jay Sanders
RRP: $42.00$35.66In this important volume, Jay Sanders and J. Hoberman explore the vibrant underground performance art scene of 1970s New York. Focusing on little-known and long-forgotten works, which were often performed in live/work lofts, storefronts, and alternative... -
Reading Contemporary Performance: Theatricality Across Genres by Gabrielle Cody
RRP: $77.68$69.15As the nature of contemporary performance continues to expand into new forms, genres and media, it requires an increasingly diverse vocabulary. Reading Contemporary Performance provides students, critics and creators with a rich understanding of the key... -
Costume in Performance: Materiality, Culture, and the Body by Donatella Barbieri
$74.93Winner of Best Performance Design and Scenography Publication Award, Prague Quadrennial 2019 This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding associations between contemporary practices and historical... -
The Acting Coach Approach: 48 Monologues for Kids and How to Master Them by Lana Young 9780615874166 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50$6.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615874166Author Lana YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Jon EmmPublisher Jon EmmWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm -
Marina Abramovic Mary Richards 9780815364221
RRP: $77.68$68.31Marina Abramovic is the creator of pioneering performance art which transcends the form's provocative origins. Her visceral and extreme performances have tested the limits of both body and mind, communicating with audiences worldwide on a personal and... -
Live Art in LA: Performance in Southern California, 1970 - 1983 by Peggy Phelan
RRP: $77.68$68.31Live Art in LA: Performance Art in Southern California , 1970-1983 documents and critically examines one of the most fecund periods in the history of live art. The book forms part of the Getty Institute's Pacific Standard Time initiative - a series of... -
Public Sphere by Performance by Vujanovic Cvejic 9783942214100
RRP: $29.40$26.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783942214100Author Vujanovic CvejicFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Bbooks VerlagPublisher Bbooks Verlag -
Creating Solo Performance by Sean Bruno
RRP: $67.18$62.01Creating Solo Performance is an innovative toolbox of exercises and challenges focused on providing you - the performer - with engaging and inspiring ways to explore and develop your idea both on the page and in the performance space. The creation of a... -
The Play in the System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance by Anna Watkins Fisher
RRP: $48.28$42.02What does artistic resistance look like in the twenty-first century, when disruption and dissent have been co-opted and commodified in ways that reinforce dominant systems? In The Play in the System Anna Watkins Fisher locates the possibility for... -
An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Performance Art: SELF/s T. J. Bacon 9781789385304
RRP: $178.50$156.47This original and unique new book takes an integrated approach to interrogating the experience and location of the self/s within the context of performance art practice. In its framing and execution of practical exercises and focused snapshots of... -
A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise of the New Art Practice in Yugoslavia by Marko Ilic
RRP: $75.60$53.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262044844Author Marko IlicFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Relax, We're All Just Making This Stuff Up!: Using the tools of improvisation to cultivate more courage and joy in your life by Amy Lisewski 9780997703009
RRP: $31.40$25.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997703009Author Amy LisewskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Finest City ImprovPublisher Finest City ImprovWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Michael Clark by Suzanne Cotter 9781900828338
RRP: $104.90$82.22Notorious for his continually subversive takes on classical dance, Michael Clark is without doubt one of the most important dancers and choreographers of our time. He has created some of contemporary dance's finest productions, often using leftfield rock... -
Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England: Actor, Audience and Performance by Simon Smith
RRP: $157.50$142.25This edited collection of essays brings together leading scholars of early modern drama and playhouse culture to reflect upon the study of playing and playgoing in early modern England. With a particular focus on the player-playgoer exchange as a site of... -
Embodiment and Disembodiment in Live Art: From Grotowski to Hologram by Ke Shi
RRP: $81.88$71.86Liveness is a pivotal issue for performance theorists and artists. As live art covers both embodiment and disembodiment, many scholars have emphasized the former and interpreted the latter as the opposite side of liveness. In this book, the author... -
Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done by Ana Janevski
RRP: $58.80$47.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450639Author Ana JanevskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 700g -
Our Mary: The Stage Life of Mary Anderson by Ronald Tracy 9781662914218
$25.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662914218Author Ronald TracyFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Gatekeeper PressPublisher Gatekeeper PressWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Heavy Metal Africa: Life, Passion, and Heavy Metal in the Forgotten Continent by Edward Banchs 9781633851610
RRP: $41.90$32.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633851610Author Edward BanchsFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Word Association PublishersPublisher Word Association PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media by Jason Farman
RRP: $77.68$71.06In this updated second edition, Jason Farman offers a groundbreaking look at how location-aware mobile technologies are radically shifting our sense of identity, community, and place-making practices. Mobile Interface Theory is a foundational book in... -
Beyond the Happening: Performance Art and the Politics of Communication Catherine Spencer 9781526144454
RRP: $178.50$126.36Beyond the Happening uncovers the heterogeneous, uniquely interdisciplinary performance-based works that emerged in the aftermath of the early Happenings. By the mid-1960s Happenings were widely declared outmoded or even 'dead', but this book reveals how... -
Play with Purpose: Lessac Kinesensics in Action by Marth Munro 9780999616406
RRP: $52.90$37.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999616406Author Marth MunroFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Lessac Training and Research InstitutePublisher Lessac Training and Research... -
Form 1: No Feedback Performance in Context by Nina Feldman 9780995481404
$15.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995481404Author Nina FeldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint nfc booksPublisher nfc books -
Unlimited Action: The Performance of Extremity in the 1970s by Dominic Johnson 9780719091605
RRP: $178.50$156.47Unlimited action concerns the limits imposed upon art and life, and the means by which artists have exposed, refused, or otherwise reshaped the horizon of aesthetics and of the practice of art, by way of performance art. It examines the 'performance of... -
Performing Mixed Reality Steve Benford (Professor of Collaborative Computing and Head of the School of Computer Science, The University of Nottingham) 9780262546508
$91.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546508Author Steve BenfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g -
Living Rooms: Scenes in a Family Mansion by Paul Michael Davies 9780648599814
RRP: $25.18$18.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648599814Author Paul Michael DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Gondwana PressPublisher Gondwana PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Last Train To St. Kilda?: A Heavy Rail Story Paul Michael Davies 9780648599821
RRP: $21.00$16.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648599821Author Paul Michael DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Paul M DaviesPublisher Paul M DaviesWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Art of Performance by Heinrich Schenker 9780195151510
RRP: $140.70$96.50Heinrich Schenker's The Art of Performance shows this great music theorist in a new light. While his theoretical writings helped transform music theory in the twentieth century, this book draws on his experience as a musician and teacher to propose a...