Performance Anthology: Source Book of California Performance Art - Softcover

Loeffler, Carl E.

 
9780867193664: Performance Anthology: Source Book of California Performance Art

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Performance art is a major contemporary art form and California is recognized internationally as a pivotal area for innovative performance art activity. This updated edition of Performance Anthology offers an extraordinary documentation of California performance art from 1970 through 1989. The anthology provides a chronicle of the literature of artists' publications, art journals, major books, and catalogues; introductions and original essays by artists and leading historians and critics of performance art in California; and photographs illustrating major works by California artists. Through the documentation of the literature, a framework is established of the artists, events, organizations and spaces that have been instrumental in launching and sustaining the performance art scene in California.

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Carl Eugene Loeffler (14 November 1946, Cleveland - 5 February 2001) was founder and director of one of the first alternative artist-run organizations in California -- La Mamelle/Art Com in San Francisco, established in 1975. As artist and publisher, Loeffler produced books on performance art and correspondence art, and the periodicals Art Contemporary/Art Com Magazine, Videozine, Audiozine and Imagezine.

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Performance art is a major contemporary art form and California is recognized internationally as a pivotal area for innovative performance art activity. This updated edition of Performance Anthology offers an extraordinary documentation of California performance art from 1970 through 1988.

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