This finely illustrated book offers a simple yet comprehensive 'grammar' of a new discipline. Performance Art first became popular in the fifties when artists began creating 'happenings'. Since then the artist as a performer has challenged many of the accepted rules of the theatre and radically altered our notion of what constitutes visual art. This is the first publication to outline the essential characteristics of the field and to put forward a method for teaching the subject as a discipline distinct from dance, drama, painting or sculpture.
Taking the theory of primary and secondary...

"An eclectic original."--Peter Reading in the Times Literary Supplement "For many years, Anthony Howell has been unspooling his mad and lovely poems in England, yet has somehow managed to be not famous. . . . Meanwhile, welcome to the wide, wild world of Britain's best kept secret."--John Ashbery All the sweat of working be to set things up back home, But it's more than fifty year, and me still on the roam. Man, it's just the women here who make we feel alive: Had I share of them since the day me arrive. Ain't they lain beside we, the smooth night...

Carol goes undercover at a hairdressing salon, which appears to be at the centre of an arson ring. Steed takes on blackmailers who are extorting secrets from government officials. Someone is at loose in London, unwittingly carrying a radioactive isotope. Dr Kreel is framed for murder, and Steed investigates a dance school.