
Collective Consciousness: Art Performances in the Seventies, ed."Commentaries" follow written by artists and art historians, including Bruce Barber’s pivotal essay "Indexing: Conditionalism and Its Heretical Equivalents" on how the term "performance art" came to dominate a once open and variable nomenclature defining a broad field of live art activities. Begins with a section of texts by artists not often cited in anthologies, such as Chalemange Palestine, Clive Robertson, Tom Sherman, Ben d’Armagnac, and Ulricke Rosenbach, among others. Bronson and Peggy Gale, Toronto: Art Metropole, 1979, 318 pp. Assembled by Knížák, who was the principal theorist and leader of the Aktual group, and the publication by Beau Geste Press a much admired alternative press includes texts, photos, drawings, and ideas related to Aktual art actions, happenings, rituals, and ceremonies profusely illustrated. Milan Knížák, Cullompton, UK: Beau Geste, 1974. Survey of the evolution of happenings as partially rooted in assemblage and environments, with attention to the happenings of Wolf Vostell (Germany), Jean-Jacques Lebel (France), the Gutai (Japan), Kudo (Japan), Oldenburg (United States), a.o. Assemblages, Environments and Happenings, ed.Composed of statements, scripts, and illustrations of happenings by Allan Kaprow, Red Grooms, Robert Whitman, Jim Dine, and Claes Oldenburg. Analyzes happenings as a new form of theater comparable to collage and "compartmented" theater.
Happenings: An Illustrated Anthology, ed. Historical resource for the original interconnection among these four overlapping, once mutually enhancing, artistic movements, aesthetic concerns that have subsequently been pried apart in the history of art. Jürgen Becker and Wolf Vostell, Rheinbeck: Rowohlt, 1965, 470 pp. Happenings: Fluxus, Pop Art, Nouveau Realisme: Eine Dokumentation, eds. Catalogue of a 24-hour happening in which many early practitioners of happenings and Fluxus participated, including Joseph Beuys, Bazon Brock, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, Eckart Rahn, Tomas Schmit, and Wolf Vostell. 24 Stunden, Itzehoe-Voßkate: Hansen & Hansen, 1965. Focused on "idea art": California (September 1975) included performance and conceptual artists in the state Eastern Europe (January 1976) introduced body and idea art from the region New York City (November 1976) attended to happenings, Fluxus, and body art and Word of Mouth (1980) offered a boxed set of three LP recordings of twelve artists’ talks, while Artists' Photographs (1981) presented boxed loose-leaf photographs by 76 artists from 16 countries. Appeared in newspaper format simultaneously with the Avalanche journal, covering similar content. ArTitudes (1971-72) published 8 issues, followed by ArTitudes International (1972-77) with 17 issues, which overlapped with info-arTitudes (1975-77), with 20 issues. Edited by a critic who commissioned theoretical articles and news on international performance and conceptual art, with special attention to performance art in France. The journal also published monograph-length studies, such as those on Vito Acconci and Joseph Beuys. Contains articles, extensive interviews, documentation of works, and large b&w photographs. Primary source on European and US post-studio, post-minimalist art practices, including performance, process, land, and language art, among other forms of concept-based art. Attended to body and performance art, as well as other aspects of conceptual art. Liza Béar and Willoughby Sharp, New York, 1970-76. Hugo Heyrman, Panamarenko and Wout Vercammen, Antwerp, Sep 1965-Mar 1966. Happening News / Milkyways, 6 issues, eds. Dé-Coll/age: Bulletin aktueller Ideen, 7 numbers, ed. For publications by individual artists see bibliographies on their respective pages.ĪrTitudes international 3, Feb-Mar 1973. See also publications of Gutai, Situationist International, Viennese Actionists and Fluxus.
Tamás Szentjóby (Tamás St.Auby, 1944, HU).See also Situationists, Viennese Actionists, Fluxus artists, and Moscow Conceptualists. This selection includes major happening, performance and body artists active in the 1960s and 1970s. 8 Performance theory, Performance studies.