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Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present

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Performance art is now at the forefront of contemporary art world-wide and the desire for direct engagement with today's most prominent artists explains its wide appeal to the expanding audience for new art. Artists such as Mariko Mori, Paul McCarthy, Matthew Barney and Forced Entertainment can now be seen in the context of previous innovators, from the Dadaists to Laurie Anderson.

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First published in 1979, now extensively updated and expanded, this pioneering book has been supplemented by the definitive account of the current technological, political and aesthetic shifts in performance art.

Themes
arttheatre
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 232 pages

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