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RoseLee Goldberg's study, first published in 1979, has been brought completely up to date in a new volume that provides a critical analysis of the technological, political, and aesthetic shifts that marked the end of the twentieth century and are propelling us into the twenty-first. Her lucid text and original documentation trace developments in performance history that reflect the collapse of the art market of the late eighties, the impact of multiculturalism on intellectual history, the sociological revisions of the gender wars, the remapping of Eastern Europe after the fall of communism, and the global reach of the Internet. From Korea to Japan, Israel, Turkey, and South Africa, this new history takes into account the rituals and politics of nations, showing at the same time the connections between them that have been brought about by widespread use of technology. Russian and Croatian performance art, photographers and video artists who use performance as the basis for their work, and the ongoing use of performance as a tool for social unrest are examined. The work of some of today's most highly visible artists, including Mariko Mori, Shirin Neshat, Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman, Jon Bock, Karen Finley, Isaac Julian, Matthew Barney, and Steve McQueen, can now be appreciated in the historical context of innovators such as Laurie Anderson, Robert Wilson, Marina Abramovic, Gilbert and George, Piero Manzoni, John Cage, and artists from the first half of the century—Italian and Russian Futurists, the Dadaists, and the work of the Bauhaus Performance Workshop. 190 b/w illustrations. ... Read more

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An important work and fundamental source
An important work and fundamental source. One can find a lot of interesting and wide spectrum type information about the performance. This is a very good handbook wchich completely fulfill my expectations.

Very Good but not stellar
Interesting historical overview but full of holes (For instance, how does Goldberg manage NOT to mention Tehching Hsieh?)...you should also read another book on the topic to get a fuller picture.

AWESOME READ
I was just kind of fascinated with Performance art when I first bought the book, but now it's all I can think about. This book is awesome for anyone that is even remotely interested in performance art. Yes the cover seems a bit low-fi, but the content inside is engaging and awesome!

Important book with some inaccuracies
This is a valuable documentation of the beginnings of performance art.The histories are at times painstakingly detailed.I appreciate the conceptual discussion and the descriptions of events.So many of these events & performances were fleeting moments with minimal documentation, so the effort to bring all of the details together into a history is significant.This makes a good companion to give context to the numerous manifestos written by the artists themselves.The book covers Italian Futurism, Russian Futurism and Constructivism around the time of the Russian Revolution, DADAism, Surrealism, and Bauhaus, and touches on a range of late 20th century directors & artists.

history of performance
This book is a very informative.Providing a comprehensive history of performance art.This book gave me information about performance that I never knew before.This book is for a class and I feel personally that this is a very good teaching tool.From Dada to the present it allows me as a performance artist to see what is there before and what is happening now andbe even more informed of what my work is all about.This is a very good and informative book. ... Read more

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"Futurism was the state of the Fascist regime" - this is the view one encounters in most books written on Futurist art and literature. Whilst there can be no doubt about Futurist involvement with the founding of the fascist movement, little is known about the internal relationship between Futurists and Fascists in the years 1918-22, nor about the reasons for the Futurists' departure from the Fascist movement in 1920, or about Futurist opposition to (and even armed struggle against) the Fascist regime after 1924. Whilst the public documents testifying to Futurist support of Mussolini are well known, little has been written about Futurist anti-fascism camouflaged as official adherence to the regime. This study, based primarily on unknown or unpublished documents discovered in state archives and private collections, presents a new andfar more complex picture of the relationship of the two movements than has previously been shown by critics and historians. ... Read more

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Well Researched with Generous Endnotes
Dr. Berghaus, of Bristol University, has written and has been the chief editor of many volumes regarding Futurism.Futurism and Politics, in my opinion, is his best work.He very successfully sets the stage for the Futurist programme, and he gives a highly nuanced account of the tumultous events thereafter. ... Read more

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Futurism, invented in 1909 by the Italian writer and cultural impresario, F.T. Marinetti, was the defining avant-garde movement of the early twentieth century. Inspired by the cities, technology, speed, and latent violence of the world around them, the Futurists created an art and ideology for their heroic and highly politicized version of modernity.This book examines the impact of Futurism in Italy, England, Russia, and elsewhere, as well as its significance for twentieth-century art as a whole. ... Read more

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Good!
I have used this book for my art studys at the university.
It is small and easy to reed, but although very good.

Too short but well written.
A good, entertaining primer on the Futurist movement. A follow up is needed to really dig in depth the various contributors to this exciting art. There are some good reproductions in color and black and white. I'mlooking for a book that is more in depth and has a generous sampling of theartwork. Does anyone have any suggestions?Futurism is really an artisticstate I think is still with us today. The difference today is it manifestsintself within digital media. Artistic celebration of technology is verymuch with us in today's culture.I'd recommend this book to anyone whowants to get an initial grasp of Futurism. ... Read more

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This is a big, beautiful book with a lot of terrific reproduced works. A warning though for the novice - it only covers the early period of futurism, up until around 1915. If, like me, you wanted to see the full spectrum of works of the movement, be prepared for a minor let-down. But again, a great book nonetheless. ... Read more

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Essential
Great overview of this movement.I especially like the photographs and information about the individual artworks. ... Read more

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Vertigo seeks to document the surge of multimedia art driven by the advent of new technologies, including works produced by great names in art such as Balla, Warhol, Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Nam June Paik, and Laurie Anderson. ... Read more

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The authors have combed archives and collections, interviewed the only woman Futurist still alive, and sought out living heirs of the women of Futurism to rediscover a group of artists who were central to the movement. ... Read more

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This volume, Futurism and the Technological Imagination, results from a conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas in Helsinki. It contains a number of re-written conference contributions as well as several specially commissioned essays that address various aspects of the Futurists' relationship to technology both on an ideological level and with regard to their artistic languages.In the early twentieth century, many art movements vied with each other to overhaul the aesthetic and ideological foundations of arts and literature and to make them suitable vehicles of expression in the new Era of the Machine. Some of the most remarkable examples came from the Futurist movement, founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.By addressing the full spectrum of Futurist attitudes to science and the machine world, this collection of 14 essays offers a multifaceted account of the complex and often contradictory features of the Futurist technological imagination. The volume will appeal to anybody interested in the history of modern culture, art and literature. ... Read more

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With around 645 million people expected to be displaced Ð by wars and other catastrophes Ð by 2050, Virilio begins The Futurism of the Instant by looking at the future of human settlement and migration through the evolution of the city. What he finds is an accelerating exodus from the city as we have known it, an exodus that reverses the desertion of the countryside for the city in the past. This exodus creates a circulating city of transients on the move that will remove us further and further from our native lands en route to the ultimate exile, beyond planet Earth itself Ð something the world's mad scientists have already been planning for some time.

Exploring the shifts in scale involved in such population flows and the fraught and complex relationship between sedentary settlement and globalization, Virilio considers what the resultant loss of identity might mean, not only in terms of the exhaustion of biodiversity, but also in terms of the catastrophic elimination of temporal diversity, with the compression and fragmentation of time enabled by the nanotechnologies in an ever increasing acceleration of reality. This previously unimaginable prospect is brought closer by the accident of an instant that wipes out all distinction between past, present and future within the black hole of globalized interconnectivity.

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This is the second edition of Russian Futurism: A History that first appeared some forty years ago. It was a major cultural event at the time and is still the most accurate and comprehensive English-language directory to the literature of the Russian avant-garde. Markov gives an exhaustive, factual description of the movement, avoiding analyses, definitions, and general judgments. Rather, he presents a chronological accumulation of facts, mostly dealing with books, so the approach is similar to taking books from a shelf, one after another, and trying to tell what they are about. People and groups are presented in the process of their growth and development, so that readers feel that they are enveloped by, and have lived through, the whole movement.

The English translations of most of the Futurist writings presented in this study are to be found in Words in Revolution (Lawton and Eagle, eds./trs. New Academia Publishing 2005). ... Read more

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Noisy, violent and aggressive, Italian Futurism proclaimed the bankruptcy of an artistic culture that clung to the forms and values of the past. The movement was launched in 1909 by F.T. Marinetti, who was both a poet and a publicist of genius. A group of spectacular talents in all the arts, among them Carlo Carra, Umberto Boccioni, Luigi Russolo, Giacoma Balla, Gino Severini and Antonio Sant'Elia, set out to revolutionize the whole field of human culture. It was a young man's movement, not meant to last, and its work of disruption and re-creation was overtaken by war and Fascism. ... Read more

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Paris, February 1909. An article by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Martinetti appears in Le Figaro. It is the ‘Manifesto of Futurism,’ the movement that expressed concepts of movement and speed through simultaneous visions and dynamic lines and interpreted in an all-embracing way the new collective myth of modernity. ... Read more