Posts tagged Performance: Live Art 1909 to the Present
The Reissue of Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present
“Performance has been considered as a way of bringing to life the many formal and conceptual ideas on which the making of art is based. Live gestures have constantly been used as a weapon against the conventions of established art.”
– RoseLee Goldberg
“But the lovely thing is that performance breaks down all the categories one easily falls into.”
- RoseLee Goldberg
Saturday, May 19th, marked the 33rd anniversary of RoseLee Goldberg’s Performance: Live Art 1909 to the Present. In celebration, we’ve shared the book’s very first review in the May 1979 issue of the New York Times.
