Katerina I. Stanislavska
(National Academy of Managerial Personnel of Culture and Art, Kiev, Ukraine)

Happening as Action-Show Art Form of the 20th century.

Specifics of modernism and postmodernism as aesthetic ideologies of the 20th century are researched in the article. Basic forms of «action art» are analyzed. Historical evolution of happening form is retraced. Specifics of happening as action-show form are researched.