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Ready to learn more? Discover the books and essays that our curators read as part of their research into the life, ideas and practise of Barbara Steveni. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Clare Bishop<\/strong> (\u00a319.99)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artificial Hells<\/em> is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art – a movement in which Steveni’s ideas have played a key part. The book follows the trajectory of twentieth-century art and examines key moments in the development of the participatory aesthetic, in both Europe and America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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INNOMINATE <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Naomi Pearce<\/strong> (\u00a312)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing on interviews with artists, photographers and administrators, as well as autobiographical elements, Innominate<\/em> is a mystery story about privilege and power, in which buildings (and bodies) alternately nurture, trap, and entangle their inhabitants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock (\u00a323.99)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why is everything that compromises greatness in art coded as ‘feminine’? Has the feminist critique of Art History history yet effected real change? With a Preface by Griselda Pollock, this edition of a truly groundbreaking book offers a radical challenge to a women-free Art History.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anne Bean: Self Etc. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Rob La Frenais (\u00a327.95)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anne Bean: Self Etc. is the first major monograph about the performance work of artist Anne Bean, a noted international figure who has been working actively since the 1960s. Lavishly illustrated and including previously unseen images, Anne Bean explores and expands the nature, form and contexts that artistic collaboration can take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anne Bean: Autobituary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Anne Bean (\u00a318.95)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Autobituary is a visually-rich book of images from Anne Bean\u2019s original performances 1969\u20131974 and photographs of her subsequent re-staging of those performances made during 1995. It’s a book within a book, comparing two sets of photographic \u2018evidence\u2019 from two almost identical sets of performances made years apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Interruptors: A Non-Simultaneous Novel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Gavin Wade (\u00a38)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Interruptors are an elite squad of specialist Art operatives each with their own unique power and costume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Artist-Educator, the Artist-Engineer, the Artist-Researcher, the Artist-Activist and the Collaborator all want to join their quest for Truth, Knowledge and a Level 4 Existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gavin Wade is alternately The Author, The Interrogator, The Artist-Curator and The Goddess hired to write up the notes of a vitally important symposia series called Interrupt organised by Arts Council England. Join him on an epic journey through Birmingham, Plymouth, Brockley, Manchester and Newcastle, the battle between The Woods and The Beach, a coup de picnic, the answer to Strategic Questions number 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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