Buy Best Performance Art Books

Most art is seen and experienced multiple times, sometimes at the helm of a performer, or viewer.  Performance art is of the moment and it is all consuming. So, the question arises, what is performance art?

What is Performance Art?

Performance art is when an artist is performing live, or with a group such as collaborators, or artists. It is a time-based performance that takes place in a street, or in a performing artscentre. 

History of Performance Art

Performance arthad its origins in the 20th century. It had a live presentation of performers in a group, or a solo performer such as music, dance, plays and painting. From its inception, it was one of the most radical forms performed, or presented to an audience. Dadaism and Futurism were the harbingers of the wave of performance art captivating audiences.  Artists began staging violent performances, after the world wars. It was the decade of the 1950s, when Performance art became an art form.

Books About Performance Art

Here are a few recommended books on Performance art:

1. Walk through Walls: This book is a memoir dedicated to the performances of artist Marina Abramovic. This book spans the career of a performer and tells the life story of Abramovic artist. This book takes us on a journey of her experiences in Yugoslavia as a communist and as a young Belgrade student in 1970, when she used her body as a canvas for painting and this book is about the’’ grandmother of performance art.
2. The Art of Impossible: What do you think it takes to achieve the impossible? And what does it take to shatter our limitations and turn our biggest dreams into achievements, we are capable of more than we know. This is the core of this book and that the author Stephen Cotler has laid down a blueprint for extreme performance improvement and in other words how to achieve impossible high performance.
3. Making Hip Hop Theatre:This is an essential practical guide to make hip hop theatre. It has detailed techniques and exercises to stage a performance. It covers vocal technique, use of equipment, mixing, looping, sampling, working with venues for performing art and dealing with creative challenges for performing artists. It also gives an overview of hip hop history and it offers tools for teachers of drama facilitators, music and dance.
4. Medieval Fantasy as Performance: In this book Michael Kramer has viewed the society for creative anachronism. The art of mediaeval recreation is explored in this book Cramer has examined the group’s activities for character, persona and theatrical development and if you are interested in theatrical performance of Middle Ages, thenbuy the book online UAE.

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