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Performance art

Performance art is an artwork or art installation in the art world where the artist is present in the work. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a public in a fine art context in an interdisciplinary mode. Also known as artistic action, it has been developed through the…

Art, Origins & 1960s

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1960s

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1970s

1980s

1990s

Since the 2000s

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Performance art

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related to Bibliography · 188
Performance art → Abbeville Press, Abrams, Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Actions, Adrian, Affect, Affect Miniatiarizatin, Aktion Demonstration Partizipation, Aktionstheater, Alejandro, Amelia, Amy, Ana Mendieta, Anna Hollsten, April, Archived, Arjomand, Art, Art History, Arte
related to Main artists · 69
Performance art → African-American, Allan Kaprow, Art Corporel, Barbara, Barbara Smith, Beaux-Arts, Carolee Schneemann, Chris Burden, Clifford Owens, Dennis Oppenheim, Duets, Ecole, Esther Ferrer, Eye Body, France, French, Gillian Walsh, Gina Pane, Great, Guggenheim Museum
related to Collective revindication performance art · 28
Performance art → Art, Carabineros, Carry That Weight, Chile, Chilean, Columbia University, Elimination, Emma Sulkowicz, In, In September, International Day, It, Its, Jerry Saltz, Lastesis, May, New York City, November, Rapist, Second Police Station
related to Land art and performance · 26
Performance art → Cabbages, Dennis Oppenheim, Duchampian, GermanyLand, Gutai Group, Hesse, In, It, Kooning, Land, Pierre Restany, Portrait, Robert Smithson, Robert SmithsonPortrait, Russian Futurist Olga Rozanova, Saint-Point, Socially, Sol LeWitt, The, Vacant Lot
related to Feminist performance art · 25
Performance art → All, Ana Mendieta's, Artist, Artist Eleanor Antin, Cindy Sherman, Feminist Studio Workshop, From, Guerrilla Girls, In, Los, Louise Bourgeois, Lynda Benglis, New York, New York City, Pina Bausch, Since, Some, Special, Still, The
related to Endurance art · 24
Performance art → Abel Azcona, Another, Bed Piece, Bryan Lewis Saunders, Chris Burden, Days Totally Blind, During, Endurance, Five Day Locker Piece, Hsieh, In, In The House With, Influence, Liberty, Marina Abramović, Ocean View, One, Shoot, Tehching Hsieh, The Deprivation
related to Cabaret Voltaire · 23
Performance art → Cabaret, Dada, Dadaism, Dadaist Manifesto, Emmy Hennings, Founders, Hugo Ball, It, Jean Arp, Located, Marcel Janco, Moreover, Not, On, Richard Huelsenbeck, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Surrealists, Switzerland, The, The Cabaret Voltaire
related to Institutionalization of performance art / performance collecting processes · 23
Performance art → Abramovic, Anne Imhof, Björk, In, James Franco, London, Many, March, Marina Abramović's, Modern Art, MoMA's, Orlando Bloom, Present, Since, Since January, Tania Bruguera, Tate Modern, The, The Artist, The Museum
related to Gutai · 22
Performance art → Akira Ganayama, Atsuko Tanaka, Fluxus, Gutai, It, Japanese, Jirō Yoshihara, Joseph Beuys, Kansai, Katsuō Shiraga, Kyōto, Kōbe, One, Saburō Murakami, Sadamasa Motonaga, Seichi Sato, Shozo Shimamoto, The, The Gutai, They
related to Expansion to Latin America · 19
Performance art → American Art, Ana Mendieta, Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Cuba, Haywart Gallery, In, It, Latin America, London, Maria Teresa Hincapié, Mendieta's, Mexico, She, She's, United States, Whitney Museum, Years

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Performance artis aartwork or art installation in the art world where the artist is present in the work0.90text
Performance artpart ofthe fine arts education programme0.85text
the audienceinstance ofPerformance art only adjoins the scenic arts in certain aspects0.80text
the present bodyinstance ofPerformance art only adjoins the scenic arts in certain aspects0.80text
and still not every performance-art piece contains these elements.The meaning of the terminstance ofPerformance art only adjoins the scenic arts in certain aspects0.80text
danceinstance ofor borrow elements of any performing arts0.80text
musicinstance ofor borrow elements of any performing arts0.80text
and circusinstance ofor borrow elements of any performing arts0.80text
Richard Huelsenbeckinstance ofFounders0.80text
Marcel Jancoinstance ofFounders0.80text
Tristan Tzarainstance ofFounders0.80text
Sophie Taeuber-Arpinstance ofFounders0.80text

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    Performance art

    Nodes268
    Edges267
    Triples828
    Avg. degree1.99
    Density0.007463
    Components1
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