| | Performance art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Performance art is a term usually reserved to refer to a kind of usually avant garde or conceptual art which grew out of the visual arts. |
 | | Performance art, as the term is usually understood, began to be identified in the 1960s with the work of artists such as Allan Kaprow, who coined the term happenings, Vito Acconci, Hermann Nitsch and Joseph Beuys. |
 | | Western cultural theorists often trace performance art activity back to the beginning of the 20th century. |
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