Research Guides: Performance Art: Books

Browsing Performance Art

Use these call numbers to browse for books at the Cabell Library:

N6494.B63 -- Body Art

N6494.P38 -- Performance Art

N6494.P47 -- Performance Art Exhibitions

NX 456.5.P38 -- Performance Art

NX600.P47 -- Performance Art

Digital Performance: a history of new media in theater, dance, performance art, and installation
Call Number: Online Access & Cabell Library NX180.T4 D538 2007
Guerilla Guide to Performance Art
Call Number: ebook
Guide for artists at all stages of their careers engaged in creating original performance and multimedia work, including hybrids of theatre, visual art, installation, physical theatre, dance and web design.
The Object of Performance: The American Avant-Garde since 1970 by Henry M. Sayre
Call Number: Cabell Library NX504 .S29 1989
Performance Art : from futurism to the present by RoseLee Goldberg
Call Number: NX456.5.P38 G66 2011
Surveys a full century of performance, from the Futurist manifesto of 1909 to the second decade of the new millennium.
Searching for Art's New Publics
Call Number: ebook
Draws on contributions from practicing artists, writers, curators, and academics, to explore the ways in which artists seek to involve, create and engage with new and diverse audiences.
(also in print: NX220 .S43 2010 )

Dissertations may be useful sources for researching the state of the field
and the bibliographies can often provide a wealth of new sources.

Dissertations and Theses Full Text (ProQuest)
Comprehensive and curated collection of dissertations and theses from universities around the world, with full-text availability for most titles.

If you can't find the book, article, or dissertation that you want at VCU, try these resources to find what you need.

Inter-library Loan (ILL)
Via Interlibrary Loan, you can borrow books, articles, and DVDs that VCU does not own.

WorldCat (via FirstSearch)
Consolidated catalog of items held by OCLC member libraries worldwide. WorldCat FirstSearch is the subscription version of the WorldCat database, with advanced search options and result listing by number of copies available.

RALC
The Richmond Academic Library Consortium is a group of Richmond area libraries which have agreed to extend limited borrowing privileges to students, faculty, and staff of any RALC school.