Surveys a full century of performance, from the Futurist manifesto of 1909 to the second decade of the millennium. This title explains how a medium once used only in sporadic outbreaks of artistic dissent has become, over the course of a century, a vital and integral part of the contemporary mainstream and a global phenomenon.
A clear and accurate history of . . . a continuousdevelopment of enormous consequence to the most adventuroustwentieth-century art." Robert Rosenblum