Performance Art

Search for performance art and related styles, movements, and modes with some of
the following terms in VCUL Search and library databases:

• Add performance as a second term to artists and art movements
• Enter "performance art*" as a phrase (" ") and with * for alternate endings and plurals (art, arts, artist, etc.)
• Use synonyms and alternative categories: happenings, installations, interactive art, participatory art, events, video art
• Search for a specific movement: Fluxus, Dada, Surrealism.
• Search for specific artists, e.g.:

  • Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, John Beuys, Chris Burden, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Dan Graham, Yoko Ono, etc.

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