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Bookmark or Share- An Introduction to Performance Art | TateUntil 1 Sep 2024. £22 / Free for Members. In the 1960s performance was seen as fundamentally different from the art that could be collected or shown by art museums. It was live and its ephemerality challenged traditional notions of art.
- Performance Art: An Introduction (article) | Khan AcademyWhile performance art is a relatively new area of art history, it has roots in experimental art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Echoing utopian ideas of the period’s avant-garde, these earliest examples found influences in theatrical and music performance, art, poetry, burlesque and other popular entertainment.
- Performance art | Definition, History & Examples | BritannicaPerformance art, a time-based art form that typically features a live presentation to an audience or to onlookers (as on a street) and draws on such arts as acting, poetry, music, dance, and painting. It is generally an event rather than an artifact, by nature ephemeral, though it is often recorded.
- MoMA | 100 Years: A History of Performance ArtOrganized by P.S.1 and Performa on the occasion of Performa 09 (last year’s performance biennial, which celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Futurist Manifesto), 100 Years is an essential introduction to the history of performance art that has directly shaped the history of twentieth-century art, and that continues to be central to the art an...
- What is performance art? (article) | Khan AcademyWhat is performance art? Is it theatre? Can it be dance? Where does the "art" part come in? These are all fair questions when it comes to performance art, an interdisciplinary art form that brings together elements of time, space, bodies, and audiences.
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