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Avant Garde
Broken Music
eds., Ursula Block, Michael Glasmeier
Gelbe / Berliner Kunstlerprogramm des DAAD (Germany), 1989. ISBN#: 3-89357-013-6
paperbound, 279 pages.
History,
Discography. Fave. The most complete discography of recordings by
visual artists and experimental audioworks available, by the good folks
at Gelbe (Yellow) music store in Berlin. With flexidisk. Greatly
expands the worth looking for Celant book, The Record As Artwork -
From Futurism to Conceptual Art (Fort Worth Art Museum, 1977).
New Sounds
John Schaefer
Harper & Row, 1987.
ISBN#: 0-06-055054-6
hardbound, 297 pages, $23.
History. A good
general overview of avant garde, modern art music with Classical roots,
and work by art world performers. Best for the related discographies
of work that documented, influenced or informed the better known
performers.
Performance
RoseLee Goldberg
Abrams, 1979. ISBN#:
no ISBN#
paperbound, 128 pages, B&W illus., $7., OP?
History.
Subtitled: "Live Art 1909 to the Present". The news of the latest
dance/paint/act/write/sculpt/idea/speak amalgam in the post-Happening,
post-hippie world - all the more interesting for being published before
the trend became entrenched. There is a larger, later overview in
German, FŸr Augen und Ohren, (Akademie der KŸnste, 1980) linking
experimental music tradition and the visual arts, the catalog for the
fascinating, massive exhibit in Berlin. Avoid all them books that
confuse art school attendance and a predilection for handiwork, with any
connection to art, i.e.; Art Into Pop (Frith, Horne) and
Cross-overs (Walker).
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