[Audio Video Performance] Performance Art No.1. New York, Performance Arts Journ…

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[Audio Video Performance] Performance Art No.1. New York, Performance Arts Journal Publications, 1979. Staplebound, 17.5 x 23 cm, 48 pp. Premiere issue of the New York based cross media arts periodical, edited by Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta. Includes writings by Robert Wilson, Ken Friedman, Laurie Anderson, Dick Higgins, Eric Bogosian, Joan Jonas, Robert Ashley, Charlie Morrow, Jean Dupuy, and Stuart Sherman. Features interviews with Carolee Schneemann, Ralston Farina, and an 'auto- interview' with Richard Foreman. With some small pen marks in margins, else a very good copy.

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[Audio Video Performance] Performance Art No.1. New York, Performance Arts Journal Publications, 1979. Staplebound, 17.5 x 23 cm, 48 pp. Premiere issue of the New York based cross media arts periodical, edited by Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta. Includes writings by Robert Wilson, Ken Friedman, Laurie Anderson, Dick Higgins, Eric Bogosian, Joan Jonas, Robert Ashley, Charlie Morrow, Jean Dupuy, and Stuart Sherman. Features interviews with Carolee Schneemann, Ralston Farina, and an 'auto- interview' with Richard Foreman. With some small pen marks in margins, else a very good copy.

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