The return of the body: Performance art and art education

Art Education;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......subtle unraveling of an onion, defining performance art can be equally complex. Performance art is described by art historian Goldberg as...this description is accurate, understanding performance art requires an exploration of its multidimensional...

Prim and proper, almost. (performance art)

The Economist (US);  June 4, 1988 ;     665 words ...PERFORMANCE art, that strange form of self-expression...quite what they were. The point behind performance art, its practitioners say, is to break...something that can be bought or sold. Performance art rejects the world of dealers, galleries...

The performance of distance and the art of catharsis: performance art,...

Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society;  March 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Performance art (Felshin 1995; Goldberg 1977) is a form...life/art and feminist conceptual art, performance art has historically been anti-entertainment...anti-institutional, and noncommodifiable. Performance art is art making that uses the body as...

Bombs could be performance art, lecturer tells Stone trial

Belfast Telegraph;  September 25, 2008 ;     623 words ......could that be construed as performance art. However, he did agree with...claimed the whole incident was performance art designed to send a "proverbial...happened at Stormont did amount to performance art but rather set out in his report...

Bombs could be performance art, senior lecturer tells Stone trial

Belfast Telegraph;  September 25, 2008 ;     432 words ......could "come under the ambit" of performance art as long as there was no intention...could that be construed as performance art. However, he did agree with...claimed the whole incident was performance art, designed to send a "proverbial...

Essays; Who's Winning the Culture Wars?; Performance Art: The...

The Washington Post;  July 15, 1990 ;     700+ words ......eventually.) The protean nature of performance art is often overlooked. As described...arts. Yet by most measures, performance art has been by far the most successful...Monty Python and music videos. Performance art as practiced by Madonna, Michael...

Artists in action; Leaving behind its underground past, performance art is...

The Evening Standard (London, England);  April 4, 2002 ;     700+ words ......officially sanctioned at Tate Modern. Performance art, associated in the history books...Goldberg as live art by artists , performance art is a kind of hybrid of theatre...created. Exhibitions of past performance art therefore consist of these traces...

Business accounts for lives lived as 'performance art'

Oakland Tribune;  September 29, 2006 ;     700+ words ......installation. That was the art. He then sold the...various projects of performance art, a genre in which...constitute the art itself, with or...they could be the art? Could they then...would create a performance art piece -- by living...corporation. "Making art is the ...

RADICAL GESTURES: FEMINISM AND PERFORMANCE ART IN NORTH AMERICA

Women & Environments International Magazine;  October 1, 2006 ;     515 words ...RADICAL GESTURES: FEMINISM AND PERFORMANCE ART IN NORTH AMERICA Jane Wark McGill-Que...Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America has brief flashes...the rich variety of feminist performance art is a must, it is ironic that...

Arts: Still happening years later; Philip Key delves into the fascinating...

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  November 21, 2003 ;     700+ words ......mid-1960s I visited a London art show where I was led along...known as ``A Happening'', an art event in which the visitor...to develop. Today we have performance art and installations. A new show at the Liverpool Tate -Art, Lies and Videotape -is now...one of the first pieces of ...

'SHOW AND TELL': PERFORMANCE ART PIECE AT UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ON APRIL...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 23, 2008 ;     433 words ......McIntire Department of Art will present a performance art piece in front of the University Art Museum at 155 Rugby...in the Arts." The performance art piece is of a style...new genre public art" and will be conceived...in some way. The art piece is the sharing...invited ...

The social construction of an art field: how audience informed the...

Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......development of the field of performance art over a twenty-year period...evaluated by members of an art world and when non-art is defined as popular culture...to dismantle the notion of art as separate from everyday...performance artists, sought to make art relevant and meaningful ...

Performance art in a middle school.

School Arts;  January 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......and performance artists make Performance Art. Painters can choose from a...RoseLee Goldberg's survey, Performance Art: From Futurism to th, Present...offers a workable definition of Performance Art. In th, foreword, sh, states...

Showcasing the unique world of performance art

The Boston Globe;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Performance art may be an underground activity in Boston...this week Mobius invites the world of performance art to the Hub. The Mobius International Festival of Performance Art, with shows starting tonight at the...

Performance Art Is Traced to Whistler

AP Online;  November 20, 2003 ;     548 words ......sn't exactly an 1800s version of performance art _ one of those modern shows...associate curator of American art, said of the guard. "For our...Freer exhibit, includes bits of art criticism that Whistler called...one of his favorite ideas: "art for art's sake," meaning that...