Description
The second edition of the seminal publication on the birth and development of body art, originally published in 1978. Discusses the controversial nature of this work, reproduces the original photographic and video still documentation of key performances, and contains short statements by the sixty artists considered, who were invited by the author to comment on their work. In an afterword the author outlines the development of the form in the nineties.
Vito Acconci, Giovanni Anselmo, Keith Arnatt, John Baldessari, Gianfranco Baruchello, Ben Vautier, Valentina Berardinone, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Trisha Brown, Gonther Brus, Enrico Bugli, Pierpaolo Calzolari, Cioni Carpi, Giuseppe Chiari, Giorgio Ciam, Jole De Freitas, Giuseppe Desiato, Alain D’Hooghe, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Rebecca Horn, Enrico Job, Joan Jonas, Michel Journiac, Ketty La Rocca, Urs Lothi, Elio Mariani, Tom Marioni, Denis Masi, Eliseo Mattiacci, Fabio Mauri, Annette Messager, Otto Muehl, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Ugo Nespolo, Hermann Nitsch, Luigi Ontani, Dennis Oppenheim, Jean Otth, Stanislao Pacus, Gina Pane, Luca Patella, Giuseppe Penone, Gianni Pisani, Vettor Pisani, Arnulf Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Allen Ruppersberg, Lucas Samaras, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Richard Serra, Katharina Sieverding, Aldo Tagliaferro, Antonio Trotta, Janos Urban, Franco Vaccari, Gruppo Zaj, Michele Zaza.
Hardback only, Skira Editore S. p. A., Milan, 2000, 295 pages, black and white photographs throughout, 21.6 cm x 15.5 cm.
ISBN 978-8881186891
