Below are two links to works that delve into the subversive performance art and underground theater that flourished in downtown New York City in the 1970s and 1980s. These books are accessible to all NYU students.
- Banes, Sally. Subversive Expectations: Performance Art and Paratheater in New York, 1976–85. University of Michigan Press, 1998.
- Goldberg, RoseLee. Performance Art: From Futurism to Present. Rev. and exp. ed., Thames and Hudson, 2001.