103 books
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Performance Art Books
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The Family Fang (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.62 — 33,222 ratings — published 2011
Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (World of Art)
by (shelved 5 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.97 — 469 ratings — published 1979
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.55 — 22,021 ratings — published 2016
Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.97 — 224 ratings — published 2024
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,591,377 ratings — published 2022
Activities of Daily Living (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.83 — 992 ratings — published 2022
Psychoanalyst Meets Marina Abramovic: Jeannette Fischer Meets Artist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,054 ratings — published 2019
Unmarked: The Politics of Performance (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.09 — 141 ratings — published 1993
On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.21 — 42 ratings — published 1994
Sanford Meisner on Acting (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,304 ratings — published 1987
Contract With The Skin: Masochism, Performance Art, and the 1970s (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.80 — 35 ratings — published 1998
Angry Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.15 — 819 ratings — published 1991
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,064 ratings — published 2002
When Marina Abramović Dies: A Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.44 — 275 ratings — published 2008
Performance: Live Art Since the '60s (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.06 — 62 ratings — published 2004
Postdramatic Theatre (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.98 — 316 ratings — published 1999
Mujeres Artistas de Los Siglos XX y XXI (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Trapped (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,995 ratings — published
Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,972 ratings — published 1989
Being and Doing: A Workbook for Actors (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.11 — 28 ratings — published 1979
Audition for Your Career, Not the Job: Mastering the On-camera Audition (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.41 — 56 ratings — published 2011
Improvisation for the Theater (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.27 — 713 ratings — published 1963
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.94 — 95,747 ratings — published 2023
Acting for the Camera (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.04 — 444 ratings — published 1986
True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,715 ratings — published 1997
The Actor and the Target (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,151 ratings — published 2000
The Empty Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,002 ratings — published 1968
How to Improvise a Full-Length Play: The Art of Spontaneous Theater (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.17 — 63 ratings — published 2007
An Actor Prepares (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,281 ratings — published 1936
Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.80 — 10 ratings — published
Respect for Acting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,575 ratings — published 1973
The Playwright's Process: Learning the Craft from Today's Leading Dramatists (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.02 — 57 ratings — published 1997
Spoon River Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.01 — 14,584 ratings — published 1915
Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.36 — 770 ratings — published 2003
Self-Management for Actors: Getting Down to (Show) Business
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.40 — 281 ratings — published 2003
The Actor's Life: A Survival Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,687 ratings — published 2017
The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.51 — 942 ratings — published 2008
Winston and the Windsors: How Churchill Shaped a Royal Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.34 — 401 ratings — published
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,551 ratings — published 2025
Canticle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,617 ratings — published 2025
Moriarty: The Great Chaos (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.82 — 264 ratings — published
The Patchwork Players: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel – A Heartwarming Women's Fiction Story of Friendship, Career Choices, and a Quilting Retreat (The Elm Creek Quilts Series, 24)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,268 ratings — published
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.03 — 211,816 ratings — published 1936
Daddy Plays a Mean Guitar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.47 — 36 ratings — published 2026
The World According to Patrick White
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published
Lolly on the Ice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.80 — 44 ratings — published
Sync or Swarm: Improvising Music in a Complex Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.61 — 23 ratings — published 2005
Bound (Bound and Unbound, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.63 — 42,423 ratings — published 2025
On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,678 ratings — published 2025
Nature (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.10 — 49 ratings — published 2012
“Aliens (intermediate programmers) are not creating computer games in the ordinary sense of the term. These games are more like works of art, improvisational theater, performance art, scientific and philosophic investigation and historical novels.”
― Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion!
― Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion!
“Was it Laurie Anderson who said that VR would never look real until they learned how to put some dirt in it?”
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