Collection of Signed RoseLee Goldberg Publications

RoseLee Goldberg, the Founding Director and Chief Curator of Performa, pioneered the study of performance art with her seminal book, PERFORMANCE ART: FROM FUTURISM TO THE PRESENT. Her most recent book, PERFORMANCE NOW: LIVE ART IN THE TWENTY–FIRST CENTURY, reveals how live art has become an increasingly essential vehicle for communicating ideas across the globe in the new millennium.

Performance Art: from Futurism to the Present
Garage publishing program in collaboration with Ad Marginem Press
This monograph about the hundred-year story of performance art is the most comprehensive history of the genre to date. Performance Art is a comprehensive study of the century-long history of the medium. First published in 1979 and extensively updated and expanded in subsequent editions (the latest revision came out in 2011), this pioneering book has been translated into eight languages. It spans the global rise of performance art from the first Futurist experiments of 1909 to the present day.

Performance Now: Live Art in the Twenty-First Century
Thames & Hudson; Illustrated edition (August 28, 2018)
This major survey charts the development of live art across six continents since the turn of the twenty- first century, revealing how it has become an increasingly essential vehicle for communicating ideas across the globe in the new millennium. Performance Now offers an unprecedented illustrated survey of this temporal medium which is notoriously hard to document.