Publication on the role of performance art and theater, as well as cinema and radio, in the Futurist movement. Text by Michael Kirby. Includes appendix, chronology, selected bibliography, and index. Illustrated in black-and-white. [details]
Anthology of essays "written between 1971 and 1981, covering performance from the Renaissance to the present, with a focus on the 1970s. The essays offer a wide variety of ideas from the points of view of critics and of the artists themselves. ... [details]
Anthology of writing by American artists edited by Ellen H. Johnson. Includes contributions (interviews and statements, primarily) by Ellen H. Johnson, Jackson Pollock, William Wright, Adolph Gottlieb, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, David Sylvester, Clement Greenberg, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt, Cleve Gray, David Smith, Louise Nevelson, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Cindy Nemser, Allan Kaprow, Michael Kirby, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Whitman, John Cage, Jasper Johns, G. ... [details]
Anthology of theatrical/performative scripts and documents conceived as of as a companion to Breakthrough Fictioneers and Essaying Essays. Compiled and edited by Richard Kostelantz. Features contributions by Marina Abramovic, Ulay, Blair H. ... [details]
Issue of "The Drama Review" focusing on autoperformance. Edited by Michael Kirby. Text by J. Hoberman, James Bierman, Theodore Shank, Noel Carroll, Norma Jean Deak, Spalding Gray, Trudy Scott, Bill Jeffers, Mario Prosperi, Eileen Blumenthal, James T. ... [details]
"Contemporary Dance puts in to perspective the genius of American modern dance, explaining the meaning of the incredible variety of these new dances. Such distinguished dancers and choreographers as Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Laura Dean, Viola Farber, Alwin Nikolais, and Anna Sokolow tell how they work and discuss their ideas about dance. ... [details]
Artists' book in the structure of an anecdotal scenario written in accordance with accompanying photographs. Play first performed on November 12, 1976. [details]
TriQuarterly issue 32, edited by Lawrence Levy and John Perreault. Features artists projects by "Anti-Object" artists Ira Joel Haber, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Beuys, Christo, Agnes Denes, Marjorie Strider, Douglas Huebler, Gregg Powell, Brenda Miller, John Baldessari, Gilbert & George, LeAnnn Bartok Wilchusky, Vito Acconci, Hans Haacke, Richard Serra, Will Insley, Phil Berkman, Michael Crane, Michael Kirby, Spephen Zaima, Eleanor Antin, Jan Sullivan, Nancy Holt, Adrian Piper, Robert Barry, Richard Long, Sol LeWitt, Robert Smithson, Joseph Kosuth, Alice Aycock, A. ... [details]
Fall 1975 issue of Art-Rite, on Performance, edited by Edit deAk and Walter Robinson. Contents include: "Warm-Up," by David Antin; "Ralston Farina," by A.R.; "A Few Things We Know About Her," by John Howell; "Performance: A comment from Outside," by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe; "Performance: State of the Art in Arts," by John Howell; "Camoflage: Films by Holt & Horn," by Lucy R. ... [details]
March 1975 issue of the Drama Review. Edited by Michael Kirby. Text by Noël Carroll, Joan Jonas, Laura Dean, Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, Simone Forti, Steve Paxton, David Gordon, Sally Sommer, Mel Gordon, Nikolai Foregger, Maurice McClelland, Ester Carla de Miro, Gerald Piltzer, Barbara Radice, J. ... [details]