Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (3rd edition)

With performance art, we look back – to Dada and surrealism and Bauhaus – and we look forward, beyond conceptual art, to live performance of all kinds. In the concluding words of this guide to and survey of performance art, “from interactive installations in museums to imaginatively conceived fashion shows, DJ music events in clubs or political grand‐standing”. In the past, performance (or as it was usually called before the 1970s) conceptual art, looked forward: in the Futurism of Marinetti's “synthetic theatre”, in the Russian Futurism and Constructivism of Mayakovsky and Meyerhold, and then in Dadaist experiments by Wedekind and...