🖼ap art history review

Performance art

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

An artistic practice emphasizing live action and the artist's body as the medium, representing one of the major subdivisions of art from the mid-1700s to 1980.

AP course connection

Topic 4.1: 4.1 Interactions Within and Across Cultures in Later European and American Art

Unit 4