Research Catalog

Title

Essays on the blurring of art and life / Allan Kaprow ; edited by Jeff Kelley.

Author

Kaprow, Allan

Publication

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2003.

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Additional Authors

Kelley, Jeff

Description

xxix, 268 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

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 relationship of art to life and into the nature of meaning itself is brought into focus in this newly expanded collection of his most significant writings. A new preface and two new additional essays published in the 1990s bring this valuable collection up to date.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Geschichte 1950-2000
• Arts, American > 20th century

Genre/Form

Art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-256) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface to the expanded edition: On the way to un-art -- THE FIFTIES-- The legacy of Jackson Pollock (1958) -- Notes on the creation of a Total Art (1958) -- THE SIXTIES -- Happenings in the New York scene (1961) -- Impurity (1963) -- The artist as a man of the world (1964) -- The happenings are dead: Long live the happenings! (1966) -- Experimental art (1966) -- Manifesto (1966) -- Pinpointing Happenings (1967) -- The shape of the art environment (1968) -- THE SEVENTIES -- The education of the un-artist, part I (1971) --The education of the un-artist, Part II (1972) -- Doctor MD (1973) -- The education of the un-artist, Part III (1974) -- Video art: Old Wine, New Bottle (1974) -- Formalism: Flogging a Dead Horse (1974) -- Nontheatrical performance (1976) -- Participation performance (1977) -- Performing life (1979) -- THE EIGHTIES -- The real experiment (1983) -- Art which can't be art (1986) -- Right living (1987) -- THE NINETIES -- The meaning of life (1990) -- Maestro Maciunas (1996) -- Just doing (1997).

ISBN

• 0520240790 (alk. paper)
• 9780520240797 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003060950

OCLC

• 52979088
• SCSB-11203523

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library