Allan Kaprow - Art as Life - Hardcover

Andrew Perchuk; Stephanie Rosenthal

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9780500238486: Allan Kaprow - Art as Life

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ISBN 10: 0500238480 ISBN 13: 9780500238486

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2008

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Allan Kaprow (1927–2006) described himself as an ‘un-artist’, one who refused to participate in the traditional forms of the art world. Instead, he championed a practice that blurred the boundaries between art and life, moving art outside the gallery and museum and insisting on active participation rather than passive spectatorship. This richly illustrated volume documents Kaprow’s life and work through an extensive chronology that visually portrays his evolution from painter to environmental artist to inventor of the Happening and the Activity. Six essays contextualize this history and offer close readings of individual pieces, focusing on topics including Kaprow’s early work, his writings, and the difficulty of exhibiting his oeuvre while remaining true to his artistic ethos.

Table of Contents

Introduction � Part One: Early Works and Writings – ‘Only Memory Can Carry It Over Into the Future’: Kaprow’s Development from the Action-Collages to the Happenings � The Aesthetics of Nonart: Between Writing and Concrete Phenomenon � Part Two: From the Archive Time Pieces � Intimate: The Allan Kaprow Papers � Part Three: The Making of the Exhibition Agency for Action Museum as Meditation � Chronology, List of Works

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'Immaculately designed and exists as a substantial, thorough and pleasing artifact in its own right ... a eulogy for lost work'
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About the Author:

Andrew Perchuk is an Assistant Director in the Department of Contemporary Programming at the Getty Research Institute.

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