Subversive Expectations: Performance Art and Paratheater in New York, 1976-85
- ISBN-10
- 0472066781
- ISBN-13
- 9780472066780
- Category
- Arts, American
- Pages
- 297
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Author
- Sally Banes
Description
A prescient critic's chronicle of the rise of performance artists Whoopi Goldberg, Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson, and Tim Miller, among others.
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