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Performing Bodies in Pain: Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists

Artist/Author: Marla Carlson | Reference: P3594 | ISBN: 978-0230103863 | Type: Publication

Analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in late-medieval France and the twenty-first century, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

Enduring Creation: Art, Pain, and Fortitude

Artist/Author: Nigel Spivey | Reference: P3595 | ISBN: 978-0520230224 | Type: Publication

Nigel Spivey takes on one of the greatest taboos in Western culture in this original work of cultural history: why is so much pain depicted in the art of the West?

Histories of Performance Documentation: Museum, Artistic, and Scholarly Practices

Editor: Gabriella Giannachi, Jonah Westerman | Reference: P3580 | ISBN: 978-1138184145 | Type: Publication

Traces the many ways in which museums have approached performance works from the 1960s onwards, considering the unique challenges of documenting live events.

Queer Spirits

Artist/Author: AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs | Reference: P3573 | ISBN: 978-1928570141 | Type: Publication

From 2008 to 2010, AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs collaborated to convene small groups of men in various locations in a secret group ritual titled “Invocation of the Queer Spirits.” The publication explores all five performances.

The Silent Cinema Reader

Editor: Lee Grieveson and Peter Krämer | Reference: P3579 | Type: Publication

A comprehensive resource of key writings on early cinema, addressing filmmaking practice, film form, style and content, and the ways in which silent films were exhibited and understood by their audiences, from the beginnings of film in the late nineteenth century to the coming of sound in the late 1920s. 

Conceptual Art

Artist/Author: Tony Godfrey | Reference: P3578 | ISBN: 978-0714833880 | Type: Publication

The first ever clear, extensive, concise and informative account of conceptual art.

World Film Locations: Hong Kong

Editor: Linda Chiu-han Lai, Kimburley Wing-yee Choi | Reference: P3553 | ISBN: 978-1783200214 | Type: Publication

The first of its kind in English, this book is more than a city guide to Hong Kong through the medium of film; it is a unique exploration of the relationship between location and place and genre innovations in Hong Kong cinema.