Performance- Live Art Since 1960

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"PERFORMANCE: Live Art Since 1960"

Hardcover

authored by RosaLee Goldberg. Published by Harry N. Abrams Inc. Publishers,

First US Edition

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Hardcover

authored by RosaLee Goldberg. Published by Harry N. Abrams Inc. Publishers,

First US Edition

Focuses on the exploration of live art performances from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Providing in many cases, first person insights into the evolution and impact of this extremely powerful artistic movement.

The foreword is written by non other than Laurie Anderson.

It offers a chronology, divided between:

Performance, Politics and Real Life

Theater, Music and Opera

The Body, Ritual, Living Sculpture and Preformed Photography

Feminism, Multiculturalism and Sexuality

Dance

Video, Rock n Roll and the Spoken Word

Among the varied and prodigious artists depicted are:

Marina Abramovic
Laurie Anderson
Joey Arias
Ron Athey
Matthew Barney
Pina Bausch
Vanessa Beecroft
Tania Brugera
Colette
Merce Cunningham
Jim Dine
Brian Eno
Karen Finley
William Forsythe
Simone Forti
Coco Fusco
Diamanda Galas
Phillip Glass
Spalding Gray
Yves Klein
Yayoi Kusama
Robert Longo
Anne Magnuson
Ana Mendieta
Bruce Nauman
Yoko Ono
Nam June Paik
Robert Rauschenberg
Niki de Saint Phalle
Cindy Sherman
Sam Taylor Wood
The Velvet Underground
Andy Warhol
Robert Wilson

This is just a quick list of the many and some still prolific artists in their fields.

Laurie Anderson begins her foreword with this quote:

“this is the time and this is the record of the time”


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