Performance art: from futurism to the present

Abstract

Met reg. Met bibliogr. Oorspr. uitg. : 1979 History of live performance. It is demonstrated that this way of expressing ones ideas has played an important part in the history of art, although it is frequently left out. The performances are described for different periods and movements: futurism, Russian futurism and constructivism, dada, surrealism, bauhaus, living art (1933 to the 1970s) and the art of ideas and the media generation (1968 to 1986).