Investigating Performance Art

(1) Performance Text(e)s & Documents. Montreal, Éditions Parachute, 1981. Softcover, 26.5 x 21.5 cm, 237 pp. Published in conjunction with the conference 'Multidisciplinary Aspects of Performance: Postmodernism', edited by Chantal Pontbriand. Essays in English and French by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Germano Celant, Peggy Gale and many others. Featuring artists include Laurie Anderson, Michael Asher, Daniel Buren (beautiful fold-out), Marc C. Chaimowicz, Dan Graham, Jana Haimsohn, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Wilson et al. Covers rubbed, with a dog-ear to the lower right corner; spine colour faded, weak binding, interior clean. Great source book.

(2) Studio International, Journal of Modern Art July/August 1976. Special on Performance. Staplebound, 31 x 21 cm, 104 pp. Articles include 'British Performance Art' by High Adams, 'Performance in Holland' by Antje von Graevenitz, 'Performance in Germany' by Georg Jappe, and P-Orridge & Christopherson on 'Annihilating Reality'. Featured artists are Joan Jonas, Yvonne Rainer, Hermann Nitsch, Laurie Anderson, Adrian Piper, Klaus Rinke et al. Copy with regular traces of use, pages start to get loose from binding. (total 2)