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Gustav Metzger: Act or Perish! - A Retrospective

Editor: NERO | Reference: P3261 | ISBN: 978-8897503873 | Type: Publication

Accompanies the first extensive overview of Auto-Destructive art pioneer, organized in 2015–16 at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun, Kunsthall Oslo and Stiftelsen Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo.

The Concrete Body: Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci

Artist/Author: Elise Archias | Reference: P3174 | ISBN: 978-0300217971 | Type: Publication

Offering an incisive rejoinder to traditional histories of modernism and postmodernism, this book examines the 1960s performance work of three New York artists who adapted modernist approaches to form for the medium of the human body.

Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

Artist/Author: Allan Kaprow | Editor: Jeff Kelley | Reference: P3167 | ISBN: 978-0520240797 | Type: Publication

Kaprow’s sustained inquiry into the paradoxical relationship of art to life and into the nature of meaning itself is brought into focus in this newly expanded collection of his most significant writings.

Selma Selman catalogue

Editor: Jasmina Tumbas and Selma Selman | Reference: P3133 | Type: Publication

A catalogue of one of the most important contemporary Roma artists: a comprehensive overview of her oeuvre and a concise insight into the complex questions of the life of ethnic minorities. In Slovenian, Roma and English.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).

Media Parasites in the Early Avant-Garde: On the Abuse of Technology and Communication

Artist/Author: Arndt Niebisch | Reference: P3103 | ISBN: 978-1137276858 | Type: Publication

Niebisch retraces how the early Avant-Garde movements started out as parasites inhabiting and irritating the emerging mass media circuits of the press, cinema, and wired and wireless communication.

Maternal Metaphors

Editor: Myrel Chernick | Reference: P3034 | ISBN: 978-1599711799 | Type: Publication

Exhibition catalogue: The Rochester Contemporary, 30/4-23/5 2004. Includes reproductions of artwork, critical essays and fiction.

Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).

E8: The Heart of Hackney

Editor: Cathy Lomax | Reference: P2989 | ISBN: 0-954895444 | Type: Publication

Publication accompanying the eponymous exhibition at the Transition Gallery, 16 June-15 July 2007; with texts by a number of writers including Iain Sinclair, Charlie Porter and Ruth Jarvis.

Silent Explosion: Ivor Davies and Destruction in Art

Editor: Heike Roms | Reference: P2926 | ISBN: 978-0992903930 | Type: Publication

Exhibition catalogue. In Welsh and English.

National Museum Cardiff, 14 November 2015 –  20 March 2016.

Bruce McLean

Artist/Author: Nena Dimitrijevic | Reference: P2945 | ISBN: 9780854880539 | Type: Publication

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Kunsthalle, Basel, 1981, at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1982, and at the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1982.

This item is part of the 'Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art' Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)

Who is Ana Mendieta?

Artist/Author: Christine Redfern and Caro Caron | Reference: P2906 | ISBN: 978-1558617032 | Type: Publication

This biography tells the fascinating and controversial story of the artist’s life and work in graphic format, from her immigration to the US from Cuba to escape the dictatorial regime in 1961, to her groundbreaking artworks which lead to her being one of the only Cuban Americans to have works in museums around the world, to her controversial and tragic death.

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