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Performance Studies

All titles (1998 to the present) in Recent Books in the Arts.

Acconci, Vito. Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci. Ed. Craig Dworkin. MIT Press, 2005. 411 pp.; 15 b/w ills. Cloth $34.95 (0262012243)

Anderson, Patrick. So Much Wasted: Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance. Perverse Modernities. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. 208 pp. Paper $21.95 (9780822348283)

Aselson, Robin. A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists. Getty Trust Publications, 1998. 160 pp.; 50 color ills.; 74 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (0892365560)

Barry, Jackson. Art, Culture, and the Semiotics of Meaning: Culture’s Changing Signs of Life in Poetry, Drama, Painting, and Sculpture. St. Martin’s Press, 1998. 176 pp.; 7 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (0312219679)

Baudot, François, ed. Réjane: Queen of the Boulevard. Scalo, 2000. 96 pp.; 120 b/w ills. Cloth $54.95 (3882437529)

Bell, John, ed. Puppets, Masks, and Performing Objects. MIT Press, 2000. 197 pp.; 110 b/w ills. Paper $21.95 (0262522934)

Benford, Steve, and Gabriella Giannachi. Performing Mixed Reality. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. 312 pp.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780262015769 )

Bergmann, Bettina, and Christine Kondoleon. The Art of Ancient Spectacle. Yale University Press, 1999. 384 pp.; 15 color ills.; 224 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (0300077335)

Bernstein, David, ed. The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s CounterCulture and the Avant-Garde. Berkeley: University of California Press in association with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2008. 345 pp.; 20 color ills.; 40 b/w ills. Paper $27.50 (9780520256170)

Biesenbach, Klaus, ed. Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present. Exh. cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2010. 224 pp.; 345 ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780870707476)

Bonds, Alexandra B. Beijing Opera Costumes: The Visual Communication of Character and Culture. Honolulu: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2008. 376 pp.; 254 color ills.; 23 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780824829568)

Bowditch, Rachel. On the Edge of Utopia: Performance and Ritual at Burning Man. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 70 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (9781906497255)

Brewster, Karen, and Melissa Shafer. Fundamentals of Theatrical Design. New York: Allworth Press, 2011. 256 pp.; Few b/w ills. Paper $27.50 (9781581158496)

Calle, Sophie. Exquisite Pain. Thames and Hudson, 2004. 282 pp.; 71 color ills.; 59 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (0500511985)

Cleto, Fabio, ed. Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject-A Reader. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. 523 pp. Paper $24.95 (0472067222)

Cohen, Sarah R. Art, Dance and the Body in the French Cutlture of the Ancien Régime. Cambridge University Press, 1999. 352 pp.; 8 color ills.; 166 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0521640466)

Craig, Barry, Bernie Kernot, and Christopher Anderson. Art and Performance in Oceania. University Of Hawai'i Press, 1998. 318 pp. Cloth (0824822838)

Crow, Thomas J. The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent. Yale University Press, 2004. 208 pp.; 80 color ills.; 40 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (0300106831)

Dixon, Steve. Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007. 809 pp.; 235 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (978026204235)

Expósito, Alberto Martín, ed. Afinidades electivas / Elective Affinities. Madrid: ARCO/IFEMA, 2004. 174 pp.; many color ills. Cloth (8482153226)

Firmin, Sandra Q., and Julie Joyce, eds. Mudman: The Odyssey of Kim Jones. Exh. cat. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007. 160 pp.; 119 ills. Paper $19.95 (9780262562249)

Fleetwood, Nicole R. Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 276 pp.; 38 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780226253039)

Frey, Eleonore, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Andréa Picard, Hannes Schüpbach, and Adam Szymczyk. Hannes Schüpbach: Cinema Elements; Films, Paintings, and Performances, 1989–2008. Zurich: Scheidegger and Spiess, 2009. 216 pp.; 152 color ills.; 1 b/w ills. Cloth

Frueh, Joanna. Clairvoyance (For Those in the Desert): Performance Pieces, 1979–2004. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. 408 pp.; 16 color ills.; 32 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780822340218)

Frueh, Joanna. Monster/Beauty: Building the Body of Love. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 339 pp.; 19 b/w ills. Paper $22.50 (0520221141)

Fusco, Coco. Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas. Routledge, 1999. 307 pp.; 37 b/w ills. Paper $24.99 (0415194547)

Goldberg, RoseLee, ed. Everywhere and All at Once: An Anthology of Writings on Performa 07. Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2010. 390 pp.; 287 color ills.; 19 b/w ills. Paper $45.00 (9783037640340)

Goldberg, RoseLee. Performa: New Visual Art Performance. Exh. cat. New York: Performa, 2007. 272 pp.; many color ills. Paper $39.95 (1424314984)

Goldsworthy, Andy, and Judith, Intro. Collins. Midsummer Snowballs. Harry N. Abrams, 2000. 144 pp.; 280 color ills. Cloth $29.95 (0810906244)

Heathfield, Adrian, and Tehching Hsieh. Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh. London and Cambridge, Mass.: Live Art Development Agency and MIT Press, 2010. 382 pp.; 313 ills. Cloth $49.95 (9780262012553)

Hoffman, Jens, and Joan Jonas. Art Works: Perform. Thames and Hudson, 2004. 208 pp.; 278 color ills.; 51 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (0500930066)

Irish, Sharon. Suzanne Lacy: Spaces Between. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. 288 pp.; 11 color ills.; 57 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780816660964)

Johnson, Deborah, and Wendy Oliver, eds. Women Making Art: Women in the Visual, Literary, and Performing Arts Since 1960. Peter Lang, 2000. 288 pp. Paper $29.95 (0820444383)

Jones, Amelia, and Andrew Stephenson. Performing the Body / Performing the Text. Routledge, 1998. 352 pp. Paper $24.99 (0415190606)

Kacunko, Slavko, and Dawn Leach, eds. Image-Problem? Medienkunst und Performance im Kontext der Bilddiskussion. Berlin: Logos Verlag Berlin, 2007. 237 pp.; few b/w ills. Cloth $36.00 (9783832514730 )

Kaye, Nick. Site-Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation. Routledge, 1999. 238 pp. Paper $27.95 (0415185599)

Kemal, Salim, and Ivan Gaskell, eds. Performance and Authenticity in the Arts. Cambridge University Press, 1999. 274 pp. Cloth $59.95 (0521454190)

Kotz, Liz. Words to Be Looked at: Language in 1960s Art. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007. 344 pp.; 72 b/w ills. Cloth $29.95 (9780262113083)

Kuppers, Petra. The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. 360 pp.; 58 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9780816646531)

Laing, Jeremy, and Will Munro. Pavilion of Virginia Puff-Paint. Exh. cat. Toronto: Art Gallery of York University, 2006. Paper (9780921972474)

Lambert-Beatty, Carrie. Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. 384 pp.; 83 b/w ills. Cloth $34.95 (9780262123013)

Mair, Victor H. Painting and Performance: Chinese Picture Recitation and Its Indian Genesis. University Of Hawai'i Press, 1995. 301 pp.; 9 color ills.; 94 b/w ills. Paper $19.00 (0824819152)

Montano, Linda M., ed. Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 537 pp.; 28 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (0520210220)

Nemerov, Alexander. Acting in the Night: Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. 312 pp. Cloth $39.95 (9780520251861)

Orrell, Paula, ed. Marina Abramović and the Future of Performance Art. Exh. cat. Munich: Prestel, 2010. 176 pp.; 180 color ills. Cloth $45.00 (9783791350288)

Richards, Mary. Marina Abramović. New York: Routledge, 2010. 168 pp.; 20 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9780415432085)

Rockwell, David, and Bruce Mau, eds. Spectacle. London: Phaidon, 2006. 256 pp.; 200 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9780714845746)

Rodenbeck, Judith F. Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. 312 pp.; 47 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9780262016209)

Roelstraete, Dieter. Richard Long: A Line Made By Walking. One Work. Ed. Mark Lewis. London: Afterall Books, 2010. 86 pp.; 5 color ills.; 14 b/w ills. Paper $16.00 (9781846380587)

Rosenthal, Rachel. The DbD Experience: Chance Knows What it's Doing! Ed. Kate Noonan. New York: Routledge, 2010. 150 pp.; 13 color ills.; Many b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9780415551021)

Salter, Chris. Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010. 460 pp.; 78 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780262195881)

Scheijen, Sjeng. Diaghilev: A Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 552 pp.; 8 color ills.; 64 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780199751495)

Sparti, Barbara, and Judy Van Zile, eds. Imaging Dance: Visual Representations of Dancers and Dancing. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2011. 327 pp.; 45 color ills.; 85 b/w ills. Paper €68.00 (9783487145495 )

Stiles, Kristine, ed. Correspondence Course: An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. 576 pp.; 24 color ills.; 68 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9780822345114)

Stuart-Fox, Martin, and Somsanouk Mixay. Festivals of Laos. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010. 200 color ills. Cloth $29.95 (9789749511848)

Tiampo, Ming. Gutai: Decentering Modernism. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2011. 231 pp.; 23 color ills.; Many b/w ills. Paper $99.00 (9780226801650)

Vine, Richard, Cathy Byrd, and Ute Ritschel. Regina Frank: The Artist is Present; Performances 1992-1999. Berlin: Regina Frank in association with Clifford Smith Gallery, 1998. 80 color ills. Cloth $69.00 (3000042903)

The Art of Ancient Greek Theater. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010. 176 pp.; 73 color ills.; 67 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9781606060377)

Westcott, James. When Marina Abramović Dies: A Biography. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. 326 pp.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $27.95 (9780262232623)

Whitney Museum of American Art. Christian Marclay: Festival. Exh. cat. 3 vols. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2011. 246 pp.; 250 ills. Paper $35.00 (9780300169003)

Wood, Catherine. Yvonne Rainer: The Mind is a Muscle. London: Afterall Books, 2007. 118 pp.; 32 color ills. Paper $16.00 (9781846380372)

Yoshimoto, Midori. Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists in New York. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 288 pp.; 76 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (0813535212)

Zito, Angela. Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as Text/Performance in Eighteenth-Century China. University of Chicago Press, 1997. 311 pp.; 38 b/w ills. Paper $17.95 (0226987299)