Performance Art

Presented here are 125 burlesque queens and belly dancing stars from the 1950s and 1960s portrayed in 8 x 10 glossy booking photos. These attention...

Winner of the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize 2023I am Jugoslovenka argues that queer-feminist artistic and political resistance were paradoxically ena...

The Diaries of Judith Malina, 1958-1971 collects the diaries of Judith Malina-artist, activist, and lifelong diarist-from a seismic period of her l...

Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane considers the works of two pioneers of performance art. Jonas (born 1936) and Pane (19391990) lived ...

To name something is to call it into life, to determine its future. If we let our children name themselves, will they author their own destinies? W...

As part of the 60s and '70s fashion movement, Peter Goldings famous ACE boutique in Londons Chelsea brought him into regular contact with the bigge...

This book is for you if: you want to reflect on the big questions of life - suffering, injustice, faith; you find the Old Testament a bit wieldy an...

Since the 1970s, Swiss artist Manon has been confronting observers with their own vision. Her performances raise question about the boundary betwee...