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Performance: Live Art, 1909 to the Present
A provocative history of live art traces the precedents of contemporary multi-media events to Bauhaus experimentalism and surveys the Futurists’ manifesto-like events, the Dadaists’ cabarets, and later “happenings” and “spectacles.”
Your Silence Will Not Protect You
Brings Lorde’s essential poetry, speeches and essays, including ‘The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House’, together in one volume for the first time.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
An Occupation of Loss
A detailed record of the years the artist spent researching professional mourning, which culminated in a performance co-commissioned by the Park Avenue Armory and Artangel.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Grabbing Pussy
Based on her widely praised performance piece Unicorn Gratitude Mystery, Finley’s book explores the Shakespearean dynamics that surface when libidos and loyalties clash in the public and private personas of Donald Trump, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner, and now Harvey Weinstein.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Theatre Criticism: Changing Landscapes
Features 16 commissioned contributions from scholars, arts journalists and bloggers, as well as a small selection of innovative critical practice, sharing perspectives on relevant historical, theoretical and political contexts influencing the development of the discipline, as well as specific aspects of the contemporary practices and genres of theatre criticism.
The Triumph of Anti-Art: Conceptual and Performance Art in the Formation of Post-Modernism
Guides the reader through a thicket of seemingly arcane meanings of nonrepresentational art forms, and brings clarity to the intentions and agendas of these artists, as well as to their real world contexts.
Eleanor Antin: Real Time Streaming catalogue
Illustrated catalogue accompanying the exhibition; Cornerhouse (3 March – 22 April 2001), Arnolfini (18 March – 13 May 2001), Mead Gallery (6 October – 1 December 2001).
Acting Out: Feminist Performances
The first book-length introduction to and critical analysis of contemporary feminist performance, from Madonna to Karen Finley to Cherrie Moraga.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Spectacle: A Portrait of Stuart Sherman
Using interviews with friends and colleagues, and original and re-enacted footage of Sherman’s performances, this film explores the life, death, disappearance and rediscovery of this unique artist.
Part of LADA Screens 5.
The Scene of Foreplay: Theater, Labor, and Leisure in 1960s New York
Analyzes artistic performances, social performances, archival remains, and memoirs of the underground theater scene in 1960s New York.
