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Dada in Paris
Published in France in 1965, the book reintroduced the Dada movement to a public that had largely ignored or forgotten it. More than forty years later, it remains both the unavoidable starting point and the essential reference for anyone interested in Dada or the early-twentieth century avant-garde. Translated by Sharmila Ganguly.
Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings
Rodenbeck offers a rigorous art historical reading of Kaprow’s project and related artworks. She finds that these experiential and experimental works offered not a happy communalism but a strong and canny critique of contemporary sociality. Happenings, she argues, were far more ambivalent, negative, and even creepy than they have been portrayed, either in contemporaneous accounts or in more recent efforts to connect them to contemporary art’s participatory strategies.
A guidebook for emerging artists and small arts organisations
Leicester based company offers advice to individuals and groups working in the arts and voluntary sectors.
FANON Now: Alexandrina Hemsley - documentation
Contribution by Alexandrina Hemsley for FANON Now – on the legacy of Mirage: Enigmas Of Race, Difference & Desire. The event brought together David A Bailey, artists from the original Mirage project, and artists from subsequent generations, to reflect on the contemporary moment in relation to structural violence, de-colonising culture and relations, and the power of aesthetics and its explorations of complex formations of racial identities.
Ways to Wander
This booklet reflects 54 intriguing encounters produced by artists involved with the Walking Artists Network and beyond.
Black Artists in British Art: A History Since the 1950s
In this book, Eddie Chambers tells the story of Britain's black artists, from the 1950s onwards.
This item is part of the 'Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art' Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
Out of Line: The Story of British New Dance
A history of British new dance from its origins in the 1960s to the early 1990s.
Dreams and Deconstructions: Alternative Theatre in Britain
An illustrated account of the development of alternative theatre in Britain over the 60s and 70s.
Disrupting the spectacle: Five years of experimental and fringe theatre in Britain
This publication documents the development of British theatre from 1968 to 1973.
Lunatics, Lovers and Poets: Contemporary Experimental Theatre
A critical survey of international experimental theatres of the late 20th century, and the social and political condition that bred them.
