Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present

by Roselee Goldberg

Book Overview

"A clear and accurate history of . . . a continuous development of enormous consequence to the most adventurous twentieth-century art."--Robert Rosenblum

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500203393
• ISBN13: 9780500203392
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

An important work and fundamental source

An important work and fundamental source. One can find a lot of interesting and wide spectrum type information about the performance. This is a very good handbook wchich completely fulfill my expectations.

Very Good but not stellar

Interesting historical overview but full of holes (For instance, how does Goldberg manage NOT to mention Tehching Hsieh?)...you should also read another book on the topic to get a fuller picture.

AWESOME READ

I was just kind of fascinated with Performance art when I first bought the book, but now it's all I can think about. This book is awesome for anyone that is even remotely interested in performance art. Yes the cover seems a bit low-fi, but the content inside is engaging and awesome!

Important book with some inaccuracies

This is a valuable documentation of the beginnings of performance art. The histories are at times painstakingly detailed. I appreciate the conceptual discussion and the descriptions of events. So many of these events & performances were fleeting moments with minimal documentation, so the effort to bring all of the details together into a history is significant. This makes a good companion to give context to the numerous manifestos written by the artists themselves. The book covers Italian Futurism, Russian Futurism and Constructivism around the time of the Russian Revolution, DADAism, Surrealism, and Bauhaus, and touches on a range of late 20th century directors & artists.

history of performance

This book is a very informative. Providing a comprehensive history of performance art. This book gave me information about performance that I never knew before. This book is for a class and I feel personally that this is a very good teaching tool. From Dada to the present it allows me as a performance artist to see what is there before and what is happening now and be even more informed of what my work is all about. This is a very good and informative book.