Performance now: live art for the twenty-first century

This major survey charts the development of live art across six continents since the turn of the twenty- first century, revealing how it has become an increasingly essential vehicle for communicating ideas across the globe in the new millennium. 'Performance Now' offers an unprecedented il...

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Main Author: Goldberg, RoseLee (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Thames & Hudson [2018]
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Summary:This major survey charts the development of live art across six continents since the turn of the twenty- first century, revealing how it has become an increasingly essential vehicle for communicating ideas across the globe in the new millennium. 'Performance Now' offers an unprecedented illustrated survey of this temporal medium which is notoriously hard to document, written by respected curator, art historian, and critic RoseLee Goldberg. Six chapters cover different themes of performance art, such as beauty, global citizenship, and activism, as well as its intersection with other media including film and technology, dance, theater and architecture?interspersed with illustrated profiles of some of the world?s best-known performance artists, including Maria Abromavic, Matthew Barney, and Laurie Simmons
Item Description:Zusatz zum Sachtitel auf dem Cover: Live art for the twenty-first century
Physical Description:271 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780500021255

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