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Body Painting: Cultural Tradition and Contemporary Performance
Aboriginal body painting is 60,000 years old. Henna is 5,000 years old. Marina Abramović made body art a museum subject. Discover body painting as art.
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3 articles tagged with "performance art"
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Cindy Sherman: Identity, Performance, and the Self-Portrait as Concept
Explore Cindy Sherman's radical reinvention of the self-portrait through film stills, history portraits, and fashion photography. Discover how she uses her own body to examine identity, representation, and the constructed nature of femininity across five decades of work.
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Performance Art: Marina Abramović and the Body as Medium
Explore the history of performance art, from Dada to Marina Abramović's endurance works and Yoko Ono's Cut Piece. Learn why the artist's body became the most radical artistic material of the 20th century.