This definitive work charts the evolution of an influential movement that continues to provoke controversy today. Over 250 images of performance, painting, photography, sculpture and installation bring together the largely untold story of these influential works with clear, insightful, explanatory texts.
Includes work from Leigh Bowery, Nelly Richard, Cindy Sherman, Katharina Sieverding, Richard Long, Joan Jonas, Jim Dine, Bill Viola, Robert Pincus-Witten, Valie Export, Peter Weibel, Charlotte Moorman, Francesca Woodman, Pierre Molinier, Tetsumi Kudo, Jackson Pollock, Franko B., Judy Chicago, John Coplans, Urs Lüthi, Renée Cox, Oladele Ajiboyé Bamgboye, Keith Boadwee, Lynda Benglis, Shigeko Kubota, Atsuko Tanaka, Joseph Beuys, Jenny Saville, Janine Antoni, Ulrike Rosenbach, Miroslaw Balka, Harold Rosenberg, Carlos Leppe, Allen Kaprow, Skip Arnold, Elaine Scarry, Georg Maciunas, Sherman Fleming, Oleg Kulik, Rebecca Schneider, Margaret Sundell, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Paul Virilio, Linda & Tehching Hsieh Montano, Jayne Parker, Faith Wilding, Paul McCarthy, Zbigniew Warpechowski, Günter Brus, Karen Finley, Adrian Piper, Barry Leva, Andres Serrano, Jürgen Klauke, Peggy Phelan, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Robert Mapplethorpe, Susan Sontag, Hermann Nitsch, Mike Parr, Ulay., James Luna, Wolf Vostell, Mike Kelley, Moira Roth, César., James Lee Byars, Bob Flanagan, Marcia Tucker, Mona Hatoum, Susan Hiller, Shirin Neshat, Georges Mathieu, Elke Krystufek, Cheryl Donegan, Saburo Murakami, Hannah Wilke, Willoughby Sharp, Mariko Mori, Dick Higgins, Robert Morris, Kazuo Shiraga, Lucas Samaras, Lyle Ashton Harris, Bas Jan Ader, Vito Acconci, Stelarc., Gideon Gechtman, Gianni Pisani, Marc Quinn, Jeff Koons, Ron Athey, Cindy Nemser, Annie Sprinkle, Alan Sonfist, Helen Chadwick, Coco Fusco, Mary Beth Edelson, Raum Zurita, Orlan., Barbara Smith, Terry Fox, William Wegman, John Duncan, Helen Molesworth, Thomas McEvilley, Charles Ray, Paul Cotton, Yayoi Kusama, Diamela Eltit, Eleanor Antin, François Pluchart, Stahl Stenslie, Carolee Schneemann, Gilbert & George., Gloria Feman Orenstein, Bruce McLean, Rafael Montanez Ortiz, Lorna Simpson, Arnulf Rainer, Otto Muehl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Pepe Espaliu, Herbert Marcuse, Pipilotti Rist, Piero Manzoni, Bonnie Sherk, Matthew Barney, Rebecca Horn, Marcel Duchamp, Michel Journiac, Stuart Brisley, Howard Fried, Kathy O’Dell, Laura Aguilar, Stuart Morgan, Jiro Yoshihara, Chris Burden, Shozo Shimamoto, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Teresa Murak, Louise Bourgeois, Marina Abramovic, Antony Gormley, Ana Mendieta, Yoko Ono, Heli Rekula, Dennis Oppenheim, Milan Knizak, Petr Stembera, de Niki Saint-Phalle, Yasumasa Morimura, Alison Knowles, Bruce Nauman, Tracey Emin, Giuseppe Penone, Andy Warhol, Bruce Gilchrist, Klaus Rinke, Claes Oldenburg, Hélio Oiticica, Tehching Hsieh, Kristine Stiles, Gina Pane, Lygia Clark, Rachel Lachowicz, Nam June Paik, Eglé Rakauskaité, Yves Klein, Eve Kokofsky Sedgwick, Lea Vergine, Lucy Orta, Ben Vautier.