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performance art - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about performance art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The term happening is sometimes used synonymously with performance art, but happenings are often more informal and improvised than performance art, which is usually carefully planned. |
 | | It was not until the 1960s that performance art was recognized as a distinctive branch of art, and the term was first used in about 1970. |
 | | Performance art has taken many different forms, ranging from the whimsically comical to the disturbingly violent, as in the work of a group called the Vienna Actionists, members of which were arrested on several occasions for their performances involving nude participants, blood, and excrement. |
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