ARTH-295 History of Performance Art
History of Performance Art investigates the international developments in performance art after 1950. It considers the experimental strategies and ideological aims of visual artists who used their bodies as the primary vehicle of expression, information, communication, and social change. Performance art has had the distinction of being the most censored art form, a highly significant social fact that draws attention to its particularly disruptive aesthetic codes and materials – emphasizing presentation over representation; human bodies over inanimate objects; and temporality over spatiality.
Proseminar (16)
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1
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Spring