Performance & Participation in the 20th Century
Art
¢ Please choose one work from the following three movements: Italian Futurist Performance, Russian Mass Spectacle, and Dada Performance. What are the key overlaps between these groups, and how do they differ? Please be as specific as possible. (Clue: refer back to Claire Bishop’s chapter, The Historic Avant-Garde, in Artificial Hells p.41-75). Approximately two pages typed and double spaced.
¢ Same question, but different movements. This time, compare and contrast the action painting of Jackson Pollock, the performance work of Gutai, and Allan Kaprow’s Happenings. (Clue: refer back to Allan Kaprow and Jon Erikson’s article