A reading of Curtis' wedding performances and his persona.
The book examines three distinct strands of photographic practice – the documentation of performance works, how performers and photographers have worked collaboratively, and the work of photographers who have a strong performative element to their practice – as well as the construction of self-identity and playful, innovative approaches to portraiture.
On the occasion of the eponymous exhibition, February-June 2016, Tate Modern.
Where can Art go from here and who will be the next modern master? To help answer this question we are taken on an enlightening and entertaining journey through the story of modern cubism to now.
This engaging autobiography tells the story of Kusama's life and extraordinary career in her own words, revealing her as a fascinating figure and maverick artist who channels her obsessive neuroses into an art that transcends cultural barriers.
Poet and painter Adrian Henri gives an account of the origins of ‘total art’ followed by fully documented chapters on the American environmental tradition of Kaprow, Oldenburgh, Warhol, Kienholz and many others.
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
This book draws a vibrant portrait of the artists and performers who gave the 1963 Village its exhilarating force, the avant-garde whose interweaving of public and private life, work and play, art and ordinary experience, began a wholesale reworking of the social and cultural fabric of America.
Contains essays and interviews by late leading art critic Stuart Morgan with a foreward by Thomas McEvilley
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
A comprehensive bibliography of writings on 'Action Art' in the twentieth century.
Published to coincide with exhibition, 2013
Images and dialogues exploring contemporary art’s engagements with risk.