performance art

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noun

a collaborative art form originating in the 1970s as a fusion of several artistic media, as painting, film, video, music, drama, and dance, and deriving in part from the 1960s performance happenings.

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Origin of performance art

First recorded in 1970–75

OTHER WORDS FROM performance art

performance artist, noun

Words nearby performance art

perforce, perforin, perform, performance, performance appraisal, performance art, performance bond, performance capture, performance-enhancing, performance indicator, performance test

How to use performance art in a sentence

On the outside, activists stage elaborate performance art, like handing out flip-flops to shame candidates who switched positions, or flying prop-planes with slogans dragging behind on banners.
Joe Manchin Faces Protests from the Left at Home in West Virginia|Philip Elliott|August 25, 2021|Time
Ono, now 88, has gone on to have her own decade-spanning career as a groundbreaking artist across a variety of mediums, from performance art to music to film to sculpture and painting.
The Love Story of John and Yoko, 50 Years Later|Sean Braswell|August 3, 2021|Ozy
Their partnership, combining avant-garde music and performance art with technology, became a media sensation thanks to Moorman’s willingness — underwritten by her sardonic, sensation-seeking intelligence — to shed her clothes.
Nam June Paik predicted the Internet, YouTube and Instagram. But he was more interesting as an artist than as a prophet.|Sebastian Smee|July 30, 2021|Washington Post
By the time he graduated from the Iceland University of the Arts in Reykjavik in 2001, Kjartansson’s theatrical upbringing had merged with an interest in performance art, as practiced by the likes of Marina Abramovic, Chris Burden and Bruce Nauman.
Revisiting ‘The Visitors’: An oral history of Ragnar Kjartansson’s multimedia masterpiece|Sebastian Smee, Gabriel Florit, Joanne Lee|July 23, 2021|Washington Post

Also, some sectors like travel and performance arts have yet to mount a substantial recovery.
U.S. economy adds 559,000 jobs in May, as the recovery shows signs of strength amid head winds|Eli Rosenberg|June 4, 2021|Washington Post
The pulps brought new readers to serious fiction, making it less intimidating with alluring art and low prices.
How Pulp Fiction Saved Literature|Wendy Smith|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Cold War fears could be manipulated through misleading art to attract readers to daunting material.
How Pulp Fiction Saved Literature|Wendy Smith|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In “Steal This Episode,” the filmmaker denounces Homer Simpson as an “enemy of art.”
Here’s the Lost Judd Apatow ‘Simpsons’ Episode, Penned by Judd Apatow|Asawin Suebsaeng|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He throws every fiber of his being into each performance, altering his posture, elocution, temperament, and more.
Oscars 2015: The Daily Beast’s Picks, From Scarlett Johansson to ‘Boyhood’|Marlow Stern|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The hope was that greater transparency about performance would drive results.
The ‘No Child’ Rewrite Threatens Your Kids’ Future|Jonah Edelman|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of the person on whom she depends.
Pearls of Thought|Maturin M. Ballou
Many of these have been seen in the Corcoran Art Gallery and in other public exhibitions.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
Adequate conception of the extent, the variety, the excellence of the works of Art here heaped together is impossible.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
So it commands the other sciences in all the wonderful and hidden things of nature and art (pp. 510-511).
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II)|Henry Osborn Taylor
While residing in Brussels these two artists began to collect works of art for what is now known as the Mesdag Museum.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement

British Dictionary definitions for performance art

performance art

noun

a theatrical presentation that incorporates various art forms, such as dance, sculpture, music, etc

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