Performance Now: Live Art for the 21st Century

Hardback

Main Details

Title Performance Now: Live Art for the 21st Century
Authors and Contributors      By (author) RoseLee Goldberg
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 275,Width 230
Category/GenrePerformance art
ISBN/Barcode 9780500021255
ClassificationsDewey:709.050155
Audience
General
Illustrations With over 260 illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publication Date 30 August 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

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.

Author Biography

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