Hello sushipet-ga,
The research I've done indicates that performance art has its origin
in modernist art. For example, one source explains:
"The roots of this art lie in early 20th-century modernist experiments
with mixed media, particularly in Dada performances."
"performance art" (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001.)
Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com/65/pe/perfrmart.html
Likewise, another reference states:
"Performance art has its roots in the cabaret performances of dada and
the spectacles of the Surrealists, and grew up around the heyday of
high Modernism."
"Performance Art"
art and culture
http://www.artandculture.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/movement?id=1026
Influences on performance art included not only dada but also "Jackson
Pollock's painting for a film camera in 1950" and "Yves Klein's
'actions'".
"Movements in Twentieth-Century Art After World War II" [under heading
"Performance Art"]
prof.hudelson's.website [Prof. Mark Hudelson, Palomar College]
http://daphne.palomar.edu/mhudelson/StudyGuides/20thCentLate_WA.html
Another source explains that frequent themes in modernism include
celebration of technology, investigation of primitivism, and
spirituality, and and that this last theme, expressed through
"actionism", was important for the development of performance art.
"Actionism ... played on the idea of the artist as an actor. Painting
was a record of an artist’s encounter with it: they would act out
their artwork." Thus, it was a "precursor to performance art."
Examples of actions included:
"- Klein, who doused women in paint and then blotted them on to the
canvas;
- Manzoni: signed people, thus making them living sculptures;
- Alfons Schilling: performance with audience close around. Started
with skinned and bloody lamb; its entrails lying on a white cloth
spread out on the floor. Lamb doused with blood, then picked up and
spun around, spraying the audience with the blood. Then threw raw eggs
against wall, chewed on a rose."
"American Art: 20th C, Post-WWII" [under heading "Modernism vs
Post-Modernism"]
An Abbreviated History of Art: Lecture Notes, by Peter Whittaker
http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~paws/lectures/MAGD/art/historyOfArt5.htm
It appears that performance art, while it came from modernism, is
considered to be "post-modernist art", because of "its acceptance of
aspects of theater".
"Pas-Pe: performance art"
ArtLex
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Pas.html#anchor1015158
As you can imagine, this is just the tip of the iceberg; there are
hundreds or even thousands of web pages that discuss these topics. I
hope that this is a good starting point.
- justaskscott-ga
Search terms used on Google:
"performance art" modernist
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