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Time-based works > Happenings

Preferred term

Happenings  

Definition

  • Works from the 1950s and 60s that were unique, unrehearsed events, often combining elements of theater, music and the visual arts; usually nonverbal; may incorporate visual, tactile and olfactory responses, chance and audience participation [AAT]

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Action theater
  • Art, event
  • Be-ins, happenings
  • Event art
  • Manifestations, happenings
  • Mixed means, theater of
  • Painter's theater
  • Realizations, happenings
  • Theater, action
  • Theater of mixed means
  • Total art
  • Total theater

Notation

  • 119521

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-QW9R14BD-0

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