Description
Performance Now charts the development of performance by visual artists across six continents since the turn of the 21st century. It reveals how live art, so integral to the history of art in the 20th century, has become an increasingly essential vehicle for communicating ideas across the globe in the new millennium.
Renowned authority RoseLee Goldberg discusses the key themes in performance art practice, from beauty, global citizenship and political activism to performance's intersection with film and technology, dance, theatre and architecture. Each chapter is followed by illustrated profiles of the world's best-known performance artists, accompanied by extended captions that assess the importance of specific works to the practice of international performance art. The book concludes with an extensive reference section.
Providing a visually exciting and stimulating overview of this most varied art form, Performance Now is the go-to reference for artists, art students and historians as well as avant-garde theatre and movie goers.
The definitive illustrated overview of contemporary postwar art
About the Author
RoseLee Goldberg is Director of Performa, a multi-disciplinary arts organization for the research, development and presentation of 21st-century visual art performance.Among her other books are Performance: Live Art Since the 60s and Laurie Anderson, both published by Thames & Hudson.
Reviews
'RoseLee Goldberg's writings on Performance as an art and activity have been THE necessary texts that inform our discovery and understanding of this complexly critical yet seductively available cultural practice. Performance Now continues to follow this dynamic live art into the 21st century with an expansiveness and rigor that has made Goldberg's writings an indispensable chronicling of both art and its time' - Barbara Kruger
'An extensive survey of the most ground-breaking performance artists living and working today' - Dazed & Confused
'Goldberg's specificity of language means that transitions between crisp descriptions and concise analyses of contexts are consistently thought-provoking' - frieze
'This book shows how Performance Art has infected Visual Art, World Citizenship, Politics, Choreography, Theatre and Architecture. Performance Art is a virus that doesn't destroy, but gives oxygen and life ... RoseLee Goldberg, you gave and give us an insight into what Performance Art has been, how it has developed and where it is at this moment. Thanks for this precious gift to all of us' - Ivo van Hove, Theatre Director
Book Information
ISBN 9780500021255
Author RoseLee Goldberg
Format Hardback
Page Count 272
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Weight(grams) 1680g
Renowned authority RoseLee Goldberg discusses the key themes in performance art practice, from beauty, global citizenship and political activism to performance's intersection with film and technology, dance, theatre and architecture. Each chapter is followed by illustrated profiles of the world's best-known performance artists, accompanied by extended captions that assess the importance of specific works to the practice of international performance art. The book concludes with an extensive reference section.
Providing a visually exciting and stimulating overview of this most varied art form, Performance Now is the go-to reference for artists, art students and historians as well as avant-garde theatre and movie goers.
The definitive illustrated overview of contemporary postwar art
About the Author
RoseLee Goldberg is Director of Performa, a multi-disciplinary arts organization for the research, development and presentation of 21st-century visual art performance.Among her other books are Performance: Live Art Since the 60s and Laurie Anderson, both published by Thames & Hudson.
Reviews
'RoseLee Goldberg's writings on Performance as an art and activity have been THE necessary texts that inform our discovery and understanding of this complexly critical yet seductively available cultural practice. Performance Now continues to follow this dynamic live art into the 21st century with an expansiveness and rigor that has made Goldberg's writings an indispensable chronicling of both art and its time' - Barbara Kruger
'An extensive survey of the most ground-breaking performance artists living and working today' - Dazed & Confused
'Goldberg's specificity of language means that transitions between crisp descriptions and concise analyses of contexts are consistently thought-provoking' - frieze
'This book shows how Performance Art has infected Visual Art, World Citizenship, Politics, Choreography, Theatre and Architecture. Performance Art is a virus that doesn't destroy, but gives oxygen and life ... RoseLee Goldberg, you gave and give us an insight into what Performance Art has been, how it has developed and where it is at this moment. Thanks for this precious gift to all of us' - Ivo van Hove, Theatre Director
Book Information
ISBN 9780500021255
Author RoseLee Goldberg
Format Hardback
Page Count 272
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Weight(grams) 1680g
