High performance magazine records 1953-2003.

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High performance magazine records 1953-2003.

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The records of High performance document the magazine's content, editorial process and history. The archive provides comprehensive documentation of the progressive art world from the late 1970s to the late 1990s. The artist files in Series I form the core of the High performance archive. Compiled over the life of the magazine, these files contain documentation on artists and performers, as well as documentation of events, performances, venues and art spaces, and of various persons of interest to the magazine. Included here is documentation of such artists such Marina Abramovic, Jacki Apple, Bob & Bob, Nancy Buchanan, Chris Burden, Church of the SubGenius, Mary Beth Edelson, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Gronk, Donna Henes, Allan Kaprow, Kim Jones, Suzanne Lacy, Paul McCarthy, Hermann Nitsch, Michael Peppe, Rachel Rosenthal, Carolee Schneemann, Stephen Seemayer, and Barbara Smith. The contents of the files vary widely from artist to artist, but may include correspondence, publicity photographs, press releases, clippings, photographs of performances, exhibition/performance announcements, ephemera, posters and original works of art. Other aspects of the magazine's contents are reflected in the three subsequent series. Series II, the contributor files, reflects the editorial shift in the magazine in 1982 from a documentary to a critical format. These contributor files represent the various writers, photographers and graphic artists who either had their work commissioned for High performance, as well as those who sent in article pitches or unsolicited work. Individual issue files comprise the bulk of Series III, editorial and production files. These files include material related to the production of each issue. The contents of the files vary, but may include edited drafts of articles, artwork for images, and page layouts, as well as correspondence and specific financial and distribution information. Series III also includes general editorial files, such as writers' guidelines, general forms, and substantive letters to the editor, along with an incomplete issue archive of the magazine. Series IV contains audiovisual materials. The bulk of the series is comprised of audio and video recordings of performances and interviews, a mixture of both professionally produced and home-recorded material. Series V, business records, documents the operational aspects of the magazine. Included here are materials related to the financial functioning, governance, marketing and development efforts of High Performance and its various governing bodies, as well as distribution of the magazine. Books published under the aegis of the Astro Artz/High Performance partnership of the early 1980s form the bulk of Series VI. Various materials relating to the published books, such as correspondence, drafts, artwork and layouts, are included, but perhaps of more interest are the materials related to books cancelled part way through the publication process, and various proposed publications. Series VII is comprised of general reference files and documentation assembled by the magazine for various purposes. The files contain information on topical issues and projects important to the magazine, and coverage of regional art scenes, as well as general performance and art world documentation. The material includes clippings, press releases, newsletters, and a small amount of correspondence. Also included here are a variety of visual documentation of art, both reproductions and original works.

210.1 linear feet (318 boxes, 29 flatfile folders).

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Seemayer, Stephen, 1954-

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Gronk 1954-....

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Gronk (1954- ) is an artist from California. Gronk, whose full name is Glugio Gronk Nicandro, was born in Los Angeles in 1954. As a member of the 1970s activist performance group, Asco (nausea), with Harry Gamboa, Jr., Patssi Valdez, and Willie Herron, Gronk arranged anti-war protests and painted graffiti murals. From the description of Oral history interview with Gronk, 1997 Jan. 20-23 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79640744 ...

Buchanan, Nancy, 1946-

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Nancy Buchanan (b. Nancy Page Ridenour, Aug. 30, 1946, Boston, MA) is an artist best known for her work in installation, performance, and video art. She played a central role in the feminist art movement in Los Angeles in the 1970s. Her father was physicist Louis Ridenour. Buchanan earned her B.A. and M.F.A. at the University of California, Irvine and studied with Larry Bell, Vija Celmins, David Hockney, and Robert Irwin. Buchanan has made videos and performances that combine the personal and t...

SubGenius Foundation

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Gomez-Pena, Guillermo ca. 20. Jh.

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Schneemann, Carolee, 1939-

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Carolee Schneemann actively engaged in performance art, experimental film-making, the Fluxus movement and feminist theory in the 1960s-1970s. The artist is best known for the provocative use of her nude body to explore personal expression, sexual taboos and feminism in both multi-media performances and solo improvisational work. Born in 1939, Schneemann studied painting at the University of Illinois and Bennington College in the late-1950s. Her performance work evolved out of a desir...

Dakin, Susanna Bryant, 1905-1966

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Biography Susanna Bryant Dakin (born Susanna Bryant in 1905) was the daughter of Dr. Ernest Bryant and Sue Bixby. Her maternal grandfather was John W. Bixby, former owner of Rancho Los Alamitos. Dakin attended the elite Marlborough School in Los Angeles, and went on to study at Vassar College, graduating in 1925. She married Richard Y. Dakin in 1930, and raised a family of five children. Dakin had an active interest in writing and Southern Ca...

Burden, Chris, 1946-....

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Peppe, Michael A., 1898-1979

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Swimming Coach and Professor Emeritus of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, The Ohio State University. From the description of Papers, 1927-1978. (Ohio State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 13512507 ...

Bob & Bob.

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Nitsch, Hermann, 1938-....

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Apple, Jacki

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Jacki Apple is a visual, performance and media artist, writer, producer, and a professor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Her career has spanned through a range of the visual and media arts. She has written, directed and produced interdisciplinary performance works, worked in costume design, composed and produced soundtracks, created multimedia installations, and worked with mediums of photography, audio, radio, film, site specific works, public art, and beyo...

Smith, Barbara Turner, 1931-

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Barbara Turner Smith (b. 1931, Pasadena, CA) is known for her work – painting, drawing, installation, video, performance, and artists’ book – explores concepts that strikes at the core of human nature, including male and female sexualities, physical and spiritual sustenance, ecology, technology, and death. Smith studied at attended Pomona College, the Chouinard Art Institute and the University of California, Irvine. Along with Nancy Buchanan and Chris Burden, she founded F-Space....

Henes, Donna

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MaCarthy, Paul, 1945-

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Durland, Steven

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Edelson, Mary Beth, 1933-2021

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Mary Beth Edelson; born Mary Elizabeth Johnson Feb. 6, 1933 in East Chicago, Indiana, died April 20 in Ocean Grove, N.J., aged 88; a pivotal artist and organizer in the feminist art movement of the 1970s who was known as much for her participation in public protests as for her ritualistic performances; activist; in 1972, she began another project that would last for decades: her "Story-gathering Boxes" which contain cards with prompts for viewers to respond to....

Abramović, Marina

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b. Nov 30, 1946, Yugoslavia. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 84049597 ...

Jones, Kim, 1944-....

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Burnham, Linda Frye

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Kaprow, Allan

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Allan Kaprow, Painter, educator of Pasadena, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Allan Kaprow, 1968 Sept. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 657039358 From the description of Allan Kaprow interview, 1968 Sept. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220186948 Allan Kaprow (1927-2006) was a painter and educator from Pasadena, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Allan Kaprow, 1968 Sept. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat recor...

High Performance

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During its quarterly run from 1978-1997, High performance magazine documented the progressive art world. Founded as a magazine covering performance art, the publication gradually shifted editorial focus first to include all new and experimental art, and then to activism and community-based art. From the description of High performance magazine records 1953-2003. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84655198 Biographical/Historical Note...