Performance Now

Live Art for the 21st Century

RoseLee Goldberg

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Thames & Hudson Ltd
30 August 2018

Performance art

Performance Now charts the development of performance by visual artists across six continents since the turn of the 21st century. It reveals how live art, so integral to the history of art in the 20th century, has become an increasingly essential vehicle for communicating ideas across the globe in the new millennium.

Renowned authority RoseLee Goldberg discusses the key themes in performance art practice, from beauty, global citizenship and political activism to performance's intersection with film and technology, dance, theatre and architecture. Each chapter is followed by illustrated profiles of the world's best-known performance artists, accompanied by extended captions that assess the importance of specific works to the practice of international performance art. The book concludes with an extensive reference section.

Providing a visually exciting and stimulating overview of this most varied art form, Performance Now is the go-to reference for artists, art students and historians as well as avant-garde theatre and movie goers.

By: RoseLee Goldberg
Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 275mm, Width: 230mm,
Weight: 1.680kg
ISBN: 9780500021255
ISBN 10: 0500021252
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 30 August 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction • 1. Performance as Visual Art • 2. World Citizenship: Performance as a Global Language • 3. Radical Action: On Performance and Politics • 4. Dance After Choreography • 5. Off stage: New Theatre • 6. Performing Architecture

RoseLee Goldberg is Director of Performa, a multi-disciplinary arts organization for the research, development and presentation of 21st-century visual art performance.Among her other books are Performance: Live Art Since the 60s and Laurie Anderson, both published by Thames & Hudson.

Reviews for Performance Now: Live Art for the 21st Century

'RoseLee Goldberg’s writings on Performance as an art and activity have been THE necessary texts that inform our discovery and understanding of this complexly critical yet seductively available cultural practice. Performance Now continues to follow this dynamic live art into the 21st century with an expansiveness and rigor that has made Goldberg’s writings an indispensable chronicling of both art and its time' - Barbara Kruger 'An extensive survey of the most ground-breaking performance artists living and working today' - Dazed & Confused 'Goldberg’s specificity of language means that transitions between crisp descriptions and concise analyses of contexts are consistently thought-provoking' - frieze 'This book shows how Performance Art has infected Visual Art, World Citizenship, Politics, Choreography, Theatre and Architecture. Performance Art is a virus that doesn’t destroy, but gives oxygen and life … RoseLee Goldberg, you gave and give us an insight into what Performance Art has been, how it has developed and where it is at this moment. Thanks for this precious gift to all of us' - Ivo van Hove, Theatre Director