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Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life
Allan Kaprow
University of California Press
University of California Press
Allan Kaprow's "happenings" and "environments" were the precursors to contemporary performance art, and his essays are some of the most thoughtful, provocative, and influential of his generation. His sustained inquiry into the paradoxical...
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Allan Kaprow--Art as Life
Alex Potts, Glenn Phillips, Paul Schimmel
Getty Publications
Getty Publications
A self-described "un-artist," Allan Kaprow championed an artistic practice that moved art out of the museum and into the everyday. His works insistently blurred the boundaries between art and life, requiring active participation rather than passive...
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Allan Kaprow: 18 Happenings in 6 Parts
Andre Lepeke, Eva Meyer-Hermann, Stefanie Rosenthal
Steidl/Hauser & Wirth
Steidl/Hauser & Wirth
On October 4, 1959, Allan Kaprow (1927-2006) premiered his seminal work 18 Happenings in 6 Parts at the Reuben Gallery in New York City. Kaprow combined new electronic music and music theory, the plastic arts, theater and dance within an innovative...
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Childsplay: The Art of Allan Kaprow
Jeff Kelley
University of California Press
University of California Press
Allan Kaprow has been described as an avant-garde revolutionary, a radical sociologist, a Zen(ish) monk, a progressive educator, and an anti-art theorist. But, above all, as this book reminds us, he has been an influential artist. Known for his...
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That Bodies Speak Has Been Known For A Long Time
Sigrid Adorf, Giorgio Agamben, Ursula Biemann, Dietrich Kamer, Anja Streither, Jutta Koether, Mary Kelly, John Baldessari, Allan Kaprow, Robert Longo, Antoni Muntadas, Rosemarie Trockel
Walther Konig
Walther Konig
Taking its title from Deleuze, this exhibition and catalogue consider the body linguistically. In what sense do bodies produce language, how are they themselves grasped and defined by it, and what spaces for action are opened up by this...
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