Another manifestation of what American art critic Lucy Lippard described as the “dematerialization” of art in the 1960s and ’70s was found in so-called body art or performance art, where artists effectively used their own bodies and actions to produce artworks. In the first instance, body art was performed live, in front of an audience. Frequently, though, it was memorialized in photographs that in themselves became stand-ins for the events. (Something similar applied to land art, as discussed earlier, where photographs often provided documentation for works in locations that were physically inaccessible.) Performances had been carried out by the likes ...(100 of 73439 words)