The Amazing Decade: Women and Performance Art in America, 1970-1980

Notes

A detailed study of the role women artists played in the develpment and expansion of performance art

Editor	Moira Roth
Publisher	Astro Artz
ISBN	0937122092
Reference	P2495
Date	1983
Type	Publication

Keywords

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