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About Performance art
Description of Performance art
Examples of Performance art
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About Performance art
Description of Performance art |
Performance art
Descriptive
term
applied
to
‘live’
presentations
by
artists.
It
was
first
used
very
loosely
by
artists
in
the
early
1960s
in
the
USA
to
refer
to
the
many
live
events
taking
place
at
that
time,
such
as
Happenings,
Fluxus
concerts,
Events,
body
art
or
(in
Germany)
Aktionen
and
Demonstrationen.
In
1969
performance
was
more
specifically
incorporated
into
titles
of
work
in
the
USA
and
UK
and
was
interchangeable
with
‘performance
piece’
or
simply
‘piece’,
as
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Examples of Performance art at Auction
Artists Associated with Performance art — 13 artists:
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