Performance
Live Art Since the 60s
Roselee Goldberg
Foreword by Laurie Anderson
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| ‘Essential for its seriousness, clarity and illustrations, her work will no doubt be the most important text on this subject for quite a while’ | | – Library Journal |
| ‘RoseLee Goldberg has brought her abilities as a writer of compelling narrative to the service of a vast personal knowledge of performance art around the world... She is to be enthusiastically congratulated’ | | – Art Monthly |
| ‘A fascinating book... Goldberg’s own writing provides superb connective tissue, prefacing each chapter with a crisp, focused essay’ | | – The Herald |
Juxtaposing startling images and texts, this acclaimed book presents the broadest panorama ever of this multi-faceted artform. From Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni to Joseph Beuys, Robert Wilson, Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson, Pina Bausch, Matthew Barney, Bill T. Jones, Gilbert & George, Mona Hatoum and many others, with scores of works from Europe, the Americas, Japan and Australia, this is a landmark publication indispensable to all those interested in visual culture.
RoseLee Goldberg pioneered the study of performance art. She currently teaches at New York University and is a frequent contributor to Artforum and other journals. Laurie Anderson is one of the most acclaimed and widely known American performance artists working today.
Also by RoseLee Goldberg
Performance Art: from Futurism to the Present
Laurie Anderson |
|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500282196 | | ISBN-13 978-0500282199 | | | | 28.0 x 25.0 cm | | Paperback with flaps | | 240pp | | Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout | | First published 2004 | | | | £18.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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