Performance art in Western Europe and North America developed in part as a response to
the commercialisation of the art object, as artists endeavoured to create works of art that …

Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere is the first interdisciplinary analysis of
performance art in East, Central and Southeast Europe under socialist rule. By investigating …

A sourcebook of primary documents on Eastern and Central European art from the second
half of the twentieth century. Although a number of books have told the story of modern and …

Inter-national in the largest sense, the books collected in the Studies in International
Performance series display a range of historical, theoretical and critical approaches to the …

The first book devoted to Irish performance art and the first attempt at a history of this art form
in the north and south of Ireland, this book brings together contributions by prominent Irish …

There is no agreement as to where, when, and why performance art was invented. I take this
as an opening to advance my theory, which has appeared gradually to me through the murk …

The Total Work of Art provides a broad survey that incorporates many canonical artists into a
single narrative. With particular attention to the influence of the Total Work of Art on modern …

European theatre has been the site of enormous change and struggle since 1960. There
have been radical shifts in the nature and understanding of performance, fuelled by …

How did the concept of the avant-garde come into existence? How did it impact on the
performing arts? How did the avant-garde challenge the artistic establishment and avoid the …