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Performance art is now at the forefront of contemporary art world-wide. An astonishing increase in the number of works and venues testifies to this art form being the chosen medium for articulating ""difference"", whether dealing with issues of identity, multiculturalism or globalism. The desire for direct engagement with today's most prominent artists explains the wide appeal of performance art to the expanding audiences for new art. Artists such as Mariko Mori, Paul McCarthy, Matthew Barney and Forced Entertainment can now be seen in the context of previous innovators, from the Dadaists to Laurie Anderson.

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'RoseLee Goldberg has charted new territory by presenting for the first time a clear and accurate history of... a continuous development of enormous consequence to the most adventurous 20th-century art' - Robert Rosenblum

"""'RoseLee Goldberg has charted new territory by presenting for the first time a clear and accurate history of... a continuous development of enormous consequence to the most adventurous 20th-century art' - Robert Rosenblum"""

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RoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, curator, critic and leading authority on performance art. Among her other books are Laurie Anderson and Performance: Live Art Since the 60s, both published by Thames & Hudson.

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