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Allan Kaprow
Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life
Expanded Edition
$25.95, £14.95 paperback
978-0-520-24079-7
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297 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 17 b/w photographs
December 2003, Available worldwide
Categories: Art; Art Criticism; Art Theory
December 2003, Available worldwide
Categories: Art; Art Criticism; Art Theory
Praise for the first edition:
"Throughout these essays there is a lyric impulse, a rising of the heart, a moral passion that represents the spirit of the '60s at its best. At the same time Kaprow's thinking is exceedingly rigorous. . . . He has the optimism of the period without its willed naïveté."—Joan Acocella, Art in America
"These writingsÉradiate the quiet wonder of life."—John C. Welchman, Artforum
"Throughout these essays there is a lyric impulse, a rising of the heart, a moral passion that represents the spirit of the '60s at its best. At the same time Kaprow's thinking is exceedingly rigorous. . . . He has the optimism of the period without its willed naïveté."—Joan Acocella, Art in America
"These writingsÉradiate the quiet wonder of life."—John C. Welchman, Artforum
"Allan Kaprow's essays sound fresh and newÉ. Artists of the world, read this--you have nothing to lose but your equilibrium."—Lucy R. Lippard, author of Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America
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.
Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties, by Linda M. Montano
Childsplay: The Art of Allan Kaprow, by Jeff Kelley
Childsplay: The Art of Allan Kaprow, by Jeff Kelley