THE ART OF PERFORMANCE A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY edited by GREGORY BATTCOCK AND ROBERT NICKAS

THE ART OF PERFORMANCE
A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY
edited by
GREGORY BATTCOCK AND ROBERT NICKAS

The Art of Performance
A Critical Anthology
1984
Edited By: Gregory Battcock and Robert Nickas
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Copyright @ 1984 by the Estate of Gregory Battcock and Robert Nickas
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 79-53323
ISBN: 0-525-48039-0
Published simultaneously in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, Toronto
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First Edition
Vito Acconci: "Notebook: On Activity and Performance." Reprinted from Art and Artists 6, no.
2 (May l97l), pp. 68-69, by permission of Art and Artists and the author.
Russell Baker: "Observer: Seated One Day At the Cello." Reprinted from The New York
Times, May 14, 1967, p. lOE, by permission of The New York Times. Copyright @ 1967 by The New
York Times Company.
David Bourdon: "An Eccentric Body of Art." Reprinted from Saturday Review of the Arts 1, no. 2
(February 3, 1973), pp. 30-32, by permission of Saturday Review of the Arts and the author.
Cee S. Brown: "Performance Art: A New Form of Theatre, Not a New Concept in Art."
Copyright @ 1983 by Cee S. Brown. Printed by permission of the author.
Chris Burden and Jan Butterfield: “Through the Night Softly." Reprinted from Arts 49, no. 7
(March 1975), pp. 68-72, by permission of Arts and the authors.
For their help in the preparation of this anthology, I wish to thank David Shapiro, Barbara
Goldner, and Cyril Nelson. I am also grateful to the Sonnabend Gallery, Ronald Feldman Fine
Arts Inc., the Byrd Hoffman Foundation, and Holly Solomon Gallery for kindly providing access
to their photographic files.
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Part 1: Historical Introduction
Attanasio Di Felice: Renaissance Performance: Notes on Prototypical Artistic Actions in the
Age of the Platonic Princes
RoseLee Goldberg: Performance: A Hidden History
Annabelle Henkin Melzer: The Dada Actor and Performance Theory
Ken Friedman: Fluxus Performance
RoseLee Goldberg: Performance: The Golden Years
Part 2: Theory and Criticism
Michael Kirby: On Acting and Not-Acting
Cee S. Brown: Performance Art: A New Form of Theatre, Not a New Concept in Art
François Pluchart: Risk as the Practice of Thought
Peter Gorsen: The Return of Existentialism in Performance Art
Wayne Enstice: Performance Art’s Coming of Age
David Shapiro: Poetry and Action: Performance in a Dark Time
Herbert Molderings: Life Is No Performance: Performance by Jochen Gerz
Part 3: The Artists
David Bourdon: An Eccentric Body of Art
Vito Acconci: Notebook: On Activity and Performance
Robin White: An Interview with Terry Fox
Chris Burden and Jan Butterfield: Through the Night Softly
Les Levine: Artistic
Rob La Frenais: An Interview with Laurie Anderson
David Shapiro: Notes on Einstein on the Beach
From Jail to Jungle: The Work of Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik

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