Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Performance art is a performance presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. This article lists notable performance artists.
The term "performance art" and "performance" became widely used in the 1970s, even though the history of performance in visual arts dates back to futurist productions and cabarets from the 1910s. [6] [1] Art critic and performance artist John Perreault credits Marjorie Strider with the invention of the term in 1969. [7]
Indigenous performance artists of the Americas (3 C, 1 P) + Women performance artists (2 C, 95 P) B. Buskers (2 C, 9 P) C. Performance artist collectives (89 P) D.
Andy Warhol was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, famous for his silkscreened art and experimental films. He studied design at Carnegie Tech, learning fine art and ...
Performance art in New York City (1 C, 105 P) American puppeteers (182 P) S. American spoken word artists (2 C, 80 P) Pages in category "American performance artists"
In 2013, Dale Eisinger of Complex ranked The Artist Is Present ninth (along with Rhythm 0) in his list of the greatest performance art works. [63] Her performance inspired Australian novelist Heather Rose to write The Museum of Modern Love [64] and she subsequently launched the US edition of the book at the Museum of Modern Art in 2018. [65]
Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, [2] [3] musician and filmmaker whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. [3] Initially trained in violin and sculpting, [ 4 ] Anderson pursued a variety of performance art projects in New York City during the 1970s, focusing ...
Thousands of artists — ranging from the late Norman Rockwell to the Oscar-nominated director Wes Anderson — have been named in a widely circulated list of people whose work was used to train a ...