Editing Performance art (section)

=== The technique of performance art ===
Until the 1980s, performance art has demystified virtuosism,{{clarify|date=October 2020}} this being one of its key characteristics. Nonetheless, from the 1980s on it started to adopt some technical brilliancy.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Banes|first1=Sally|title=Subversive expectations: performance art and paratheater in New York, 1976–85|publisher=The University of Michigan Press|year=1998|location=New York City|pages=120, 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DdrVYfkAm6IC&q=1980s+performance+art&pg=PA10|access-date=March 23, 2011|isbn=0-472-09678-8}}</ref> In reference to the work ''Presence and Resistance''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Auslander|first1=Philip|title=Presence and Resistance: Postmodernism and Cultural politics in Contemporary American Performance|publisher=University of Michigan Press|year=1992|location=Ann Arbour|pages=64–65, 78–79}}</ref> by Philip Auslander, the dance critic Sally Banes writes, "... by the end of the 1980s, performance art had become so widely known that it no longer needed to be defined; mass culture, especially television, had come to supply both structure and subject matter for much performance art; and several performance artists, including Laurie Anderson, Spalding Gray, Eric Bogosian, Willem Dafoe, and Ann Magnuson, had indeed become crossover artists in mainstream entertainment."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Banes|first1=Sally|title=Subversive expectations: performance art and paratheater in New York, 1976–85|publisher=The University of Michigan Press|year=1998|location=New York City|pages=10, 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DdrVYfkAm6IC&q=1980s+performance+art&pg=PA10|access-date=March 23, 2011|isbn=0-472-09678-8}}</ref> In this decade the parameters and technicalities built to purify and perfect performance art were defined.

[[File:Roselee Goldberg Роузли Голдберг (11345275236).jpg|left|thumb|Critic and performance expert [[RoseLee Goldberg]] during a symposium in Moscow]]
[[File:TehchingHsiehExhibitMOMA.jpg|300px|thumb|[[Tehching Hsieh]] exhibition in the [[Modern Art Museum of New York]], where the artist made a daily self-portrait]]