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Women Together/Women Apart
Rutgers University Press 2005; US$ 24.95What does it mean to look like a lesbian? Though it remains impossible to conjure a definitive image that captures the breadth of this highly nuanced term, today at least we are able to consider an array of visual representations that have been put into circulation by lesbians themselves over the last six or seven decades. In the early twentieth... more...
Into Performance
Rutgers University Press 2005; US$ 29.95The 1960s was a time of incredible freedom and exploration in the art world, particularly in New York City, which witnessed the explosion of New Music, Happenings, Fluxus, New Dance, pop art, and minimalist art. Also notable during this period, although often overlooked, is the inordinate amount of revolutionary art that was created by women.... more...
Leading Roles
Brandeis University Press 2010; US$ 22.99A concise, practical, and timely guide for board members of arts organizations more...
No Innocent Bystanders
Dartmouth College Press 2012; US$ 27.99The changing role of the spectator in contemporary performance art more...
Artist, Researcher, Teacher
Intellect 2013; US$ 20.00This book is aimed at all art practitioners, professionals and students who see their practices and identities embracing many aspects of the cultures of art, research and education. It may also be of interest to those in other fields who are concerned with identity formation and professional roles and practices. Challenging conventional wisdom about... more...
Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe
Reaktion Books 2012; US$ 32.00When the Iron Curtain fell in 1989, Eastern Europe saw a new era begin, and the widespread changes that followed extended into the world of art. Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe examines the art created in light of the profound political, social, economic, and cultural transformations that occurred in the former Eastern Bloc after the... more...
Surrealist Ghostliness
UNP - Nebraska 2013; US$ 55.00In this study of surrealism and ghostliness, Katharine Conley provides a new, unifying theory of surrealist art and thought based on history and the paradigm of puns and anamorphosis. In Surrealist Ghostliness , Conley discusses surrealism as a movement haunted by the experience of World War I and the repressed ghost of spiritualism. From the perspective... more...
Arts Administration
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 90.00The nature of arts administration and management has changed dramatically over the last decade with policy, funding and restructuring all playing major parts. Following on from the successful first edition, Arts Administration has now been updated to include arts policy under the new UK Ministry of Heritage, the workings of the national lottery and... more...
Explicit Body in Performance
Routledge 1997; US$ 38.95An in-depth and accessible study of the controversial and often shocking issues which surround the use of the female body in performance art. more...
From Acting to Performance
Routledge 1997; US$ 39.95This first collection of essays by performance theorist and critic Philip Auslander surveys the changes in acting and performance during the crucial transition from the ecstatic theatre of the 1960s to the ironic postmodernism of the 1980s more...









