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“California occupies a leading role in the development and practice of performance as a contemporary form of visual art. PERFORMANCE ANTHOLOGY offers an extraordinary documentation of the California performance activity which flourished throughout the decade of the seventies. Included in this anthology are a chronological bibliography of major books, journal essays and reviews, artists’ books, catalogues, and marginal works; introductions and original essays by artists and leading historians and critics of performance art in California; photographs illustrating major performance works by California artists. “The artists represented in this anthology include: Ant Farm, Eleanor Antin, Chris Burton, Paul Cotton, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Lynn Hershman, Allan Kaprow, The Kipper Kids, Paul Kos, Suzanne Lacy, Tom Marioni, Paul McCarthy, Linda Montano, Bruce Nauman, Darryl Sapien, Bonnie Sherk, Barbara Smith, T.R. Uthco, and John White, among many others. Performance art situations include: Museum of Conceptual Art, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Floating Museum, La Mamelle Inc., Some Serious Business, The Woman’s Building, 80 Langton St., and others.”
