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Performing the East: Performance Art in Russia, Latvia and Poland Since 1980

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A book of case studies of performance art in Eastern Europe.

Artist / Author Amy Bryzgel
Publisher I.B.Tauris
ISBN 978-1848859487
Reference P2653
Date 2013
Type Publication

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