Action Art

A Bibliography of Artists' Performance from Futurism to Fluxus and Beyond

John Gray

• Publisher: Greenwood
• Year: 1993
• Print ISBN: 9780313289163
• eBook ISBN: 9780313387579
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art General

This comprehensive international bibliography is the first to attempt documentation of this diverse field, covering the history of Artist's Performance. It focuses on its early twentieth-century antecedents in such movements as Futurism, Dada, Russian Constructivism, and the Bauhaus as well as its peak period in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s with such developments as Gutai, Fluxus, Viennese Actionism, Situationism, and Guerrilla Art Action. Major emphasis is also given to sources on 115 individual performance artists and groups. More than 3700 entries document print and media materials dating from 1914 to 1992. Organized for maximum accessibility, the sources are also extensively cross-referenced and are indexed by artist, subject, title, and author. Three appendices identify reference works, libraries, and archives, and addenda material not found in the book text, and two others list artists by country and by group or collective.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Action Art 1909–1952: The Antecedents; Futurism, Dada, Cubism, Russian Performance, the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College
• 2. Action Art 1950s–1970s: Gutai, Happenings, Fluxus, Viennese Actionism, Destruction in Art, the Provos, Situationism and Beyond
• 3. Biographical and Critical Studies
• Appendix I: Reference Works
• Appendix II: Libraries and Archives
• Appendix III: Addenda
• Appendix IV: List of Artists/Artists Groups by Country
• Appendix V: List of Artists Groups and Collectives
• Artist Index
• Subject Index
• Title Index
• Author Index