num_pages: 128
description: A provocative history of live art traces the precedents of contemporary multi-media events to Bauhaus experimentalism and surveys the Futurists' manifesto-like events, the Dadaists' cabarets, and later "happenings" and "spectacles."
language: English
title: Performance: Live Art, 1909 to the Present
titlecomplete: Performance: Live Art, 1909 to the Present
genres: Theory, Art History, Theatre, The United States Of America, Academic, Nonfiction, Art, History
ratings_count: 430
series: World of Art
publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc