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What is Performance Art?

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Includes a list of performance art journals and resources, further reading, and glossary of terms explored in the ‘What is…?’ series.

Editor Lisa Moran
Publisher Irish Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 978-1-907020-56-8
Reference P1827
Date 2011
Type Publication

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