Performance Art
from futurism to the present
$73.17
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
22 January 2026
Summary
Performance Art: A Century of Live Action
An updated edition of the pioneering study in the acclaimed World of Art series, this classic book surveys a full century of performance art, from the Futurist manifesto of 1909 through the second decade of the new millennium.
Performance Art is a pioneering history of one of the most important art forms to emerge in modern times. Now in its fourth edition, it has been completely updated to reflect on perfor…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780500204689 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0500204683 |
| Series: | World of Art |
| Author: | RoseLee Goldberg |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Imprint: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Edition: | 4th |
| Release Date: | 22 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 800g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 150mm |
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Critics Review
‘RoseLee Goldberg has been tracing and defining art performance for half a century and this book is essential reading’ - Laurie Anderson‘A clear and accurate history of … a continuous development of enormous consequence to the most adventurous twentieth-century art’ - Robert Rosenblum‘It’s my Bible’ - D J Spooky
About The Author
RoseLee Goldberg
RoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, author, critic and curator specializing in modern and contemporary performance art. Goldberg has curated the work of many prominent artists from Philip Glass to Cindy Sherman, and in 2004 founded Performa, a multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to the research, development, and presentation of twenty-first-century visual art performance.
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