Performance Art

'RoseLee Goldberg has been tracing and defining art performance for half a century and this book is essential reading' - Laurie Anderson

'RoseLee Goldberg has been tracing and defining art performance for half a century and this book is essential reading' - Laurie Anderson

'A clear and accurate history of ... a continuous development of enormous consequence to the most adventurous twentieth-century art' - Robert Rosenblum

'It's my Bible' - D J Spooky

'A seminal book' - The New York Times

RoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, author, critic and curator specializing in modern and contemporary performance art. Goldberg has curated the work of many prominent artists from Philip Glass to Cindy Sherman, and in 2004 founded Performa, a multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to the research, development, and presentation of twenty-first-century visual art performance.