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These paintings from Allan Kaprow never had been seenAllan Kaprow 19272006 is internationally renowned mainly as an action artist Not only did he coin the term Happeninghe gave distinction to this art form in New York in the late 1950s Also his environmentshuge changeable installations made from material such as car tires drums and ice blocks are regarded as milestones in recent art history Allan Kaprow did however began his artistic career as a painter not least in connection with his studies under Hans Hofmann in addition he studied art history under Meyer Shapiro and composition with John Cage He was therefore not only open to theory at an early stage but also to various artistic and interpretative approaches He always moved between the tensionfilled areas of intuition open form and time reference on the one hand and the reflexive practice as a theoretician and art historian on the other The exhibition at Villa Merkel in Esslingen was for the first time exclusively dedicated to his early paintings from the time between 1946 and 1957 and reveals the role models the young artist chose to follow and work on and in particular his interest in questions on space as well as his endeavor to somehow contextualize the achievements of Jackson Pollock and John Cage This extends to the works created during the mid1950s which he called action collages and in which he gradually incorporated everyday materials and objects The current book presents a large number of previously unseen paintings by Allan Kaprow nbspExhibition Villa Merkel Esslingen 1932852017
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These paintings from Allan Kaprow never had been seenAllan Kaprow 19272006 is internationally renowned mainly as an action artist Not only did he coin the term Happeninghe gave distinction to this art form in New York in the late 1950s Also his environmentshuge changeable installations made from material such as car tires drums and ice blocks are regarded as milestones in recent art history Allan Kaprow did however began his artistic career as a painter not least in connection with his studies under Hans Hofmann in addition he studied art history under Meyer Shapiro and composition with John Cage He was therefore not only open to theory at an early stage but also to various artistic and interpretative approaches He always moved between the tensionfilled areas of intuition open form and time reference on the one hand and the reflexive practice as a theoretician and art historian on the other The exhibition at Villa Merkel in Esslingen was for the first time exclusively dedicated to his early paintings from the time between 1946 and 1957 and reveals the role models the young artist chose to follow and work on and in particular his interest in questions on space as well as his endeavor to somehow contextualize the achievements of Jackson Pollock and John Cage This extends to the works created during the mid1950s which he called action collages and in which he gradually incorporated everyday materials and objects The current book presents a large number of previously unseen paintings by Allan Kaprow nbspExhibition Villa Merkel Esslingen 1932852017
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This new interpretation of the structure and meaning of the Happenings produced by Allan Kaprow 19272006 and Claes Oldenburg b 1929 in the late 1950s and 1960s sheds light on the context theoretical framework and working practice unique to this groundbreaking artistic form Drawing on extensive archival research and including neverbeforepublished drawings by Oldenburg Robert E Haywood describes the dialogue at times contentious between these two artists about the direction of the Happenings and modern art in general Through a comprehensive analysis of these often overlooked works it becomes clear that the Happeningsborn in the midst of Cold War tensions and an increased uneasiness with the direction society was takingchallenged the traditional definitions of art in innovative new ways and were a critical component in the development of the art of the 20th centurynbsp
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An examination of an experiential and experimental art form that despite its evanescence has shaped participatory art into the presentHappenings have pop connotations that conjure up 1960s youth culture and hippies in public joyful rebellion Scholars meanwhile locate happenings in a genealogy of avantgarde performance that descends from futurism surrealism and Dada through the action painting of the 1950s In Radical Prototypes Judith Rodenbeck argues for a more complex etiology Allan Kaprow coined the term in 1958 to name a new collage form of performance calling happenings radical prototypes of performance art Rodenbeck offers a rigorous art historical reading of Kaprows project and related artworks She finds that these experiential and experimental works offered not a happy communalism but a strong and canny critique of contemporary sociality Happenings she argues were far more ambivalent negative and even creepy than they have been portrayed either in contemporaneous accounts or in more recent efforts to connect them to contemporary arts participatory strategiesIn Radical Prototypes Rodenbeck recovers the critical force of happenings addressing them both as theoretical objects and as artworks investigating broader epistemological and formal concerns as well as their material and performative aspects She links happenings to scores by John Cage especially 433 avantgarde theater and photography and offers new readings of projects ranging from Kaprows 18 Happenings in 6 Parts 1959 to Gerhard Richters Leben mit Pop 1963Rodenbeck casts happenings as a form of participatory art that simultaneously delivers a radical critique of that very participationa view that revises our understanding of contemporary constructions of the participatory as well as of 1960s projects from Fluxus to conceptual art
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Allan Kaprow has been described as an avantgarde revolutionary a radical sociologist a Zenish monk a progressive educator and an antiart theorist But above all as this book reminds us he has been an influential artist Known for his Happenings Kaprow created vanguard performances in the early 1960s in which he collaged various art forms painting music dance disguised as ordinary things newspaper noise body movement into quasitheatrical events In the decades since his works have remained open to the changing character of contemporary experience always seeking the thresholds at which art and life converge Because this art places such emphasis on direct experience some people today think Kaprows works were primarily transitory and immaterial Childsplay corrects that misconception by providing a vivid description of Kaprows Happenings and other art activities clarifying their materiality duration and setting as well as the ways in which people participated in them Jeff Kelley brings the artist his era and his work to life by showing that Kaprows artworks were physically present socially engaged and intellectually resonant in the moment of their enactment
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nbspA selfdescribed unartist 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 spectatorship interactive collaboration rather than solitary creationnbspThis richly illustrated volume documents five decades of Kaprows life and work Its six essays range across his shifts from painter to environmental artist to the inventor of the Happening and the Activity while its extensive chronology features scores letters posters photographs and clippings most drawn from the Allan Kaprow Papers held by the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute Though the forms Kaprow largely invented have lost their shock value and were meant in most cases to be ephemeral in fact they live on captured in scores and other surviving documentation still stretching the boundaries of art in the modern worldnbspnbsp
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Allan Kaprow has been described as an avantgarde revolutionary a radical sociologist a Zenish monk a progressive educator and an antiart theorist But above all as this book reminds us he has been an influential artist Known for his Happenings Kaprow created vanguard performances in the early 1960s in which he collaged various art forms painting music dance disguised as ordinary things newspaper noise body movement into quasitheatrical events In the decades since his works have remained open to the changing character of contemporary experience always seeking the thresholds at which art and life converge Because this art places such emphasis on direct experience some people today think Kaprows works were primarily transitory and immaterial Childsplay corrects that misconception by providing a vivid description of Kaprows Happenings and other art activities clarifying their materiality duration and setting as well as the ways in which people participated in them Jeff Kelley brings the artist his era and his work to life by showing that Kaprows artworks were physically present socially engaged and intellectually resonant in the moment of their enactment
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nbspA selfdescribed unartist 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 spectatorship interactive collaboration rather than solitary creationnbspThis richly illustrated volume documents five decades of Kaprows life and work Its six essays range across his shifts from painter to environmental artist to the inventor of the Happening and the Activity while its extensive chronology features scores letters posters photographs and clippings most drawn from the Allan Kaprow Papers held by the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute Though the forms Kaprow largely invented have lost their shock value and were meant in most cases to be ephemeral in fact they live on captured in scores and other surviving documentation still stretching the boundaries of art in the modern worldnbspnbsp
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An examination of an experiential and experimental art form that despite its evanescence has shaped participatory art into the presentHappenings have pop connotations that conjure up 1960s youth culture and hippies in public joyful rebellion Scholars meanwhile locate happenings in a genealogy of avantgarde performance that descends from futurism surrealism and Dada through the action painting of the 1950s In Radical Prototypes Judith Rodenbeck argues for a more complex etiology Allan Kaprow coined the term in 1958 to name a new collage form of performance calling happenings radical prototypes of performance art Rodenbeck offers a rigorous art historical reading of Kaprows project and related artworks She finds that these experiential and experimental works offered not a happy communalism but a strong and canny critique of contemporary sociality Happenings she argues were far more ambivalent negative and even creepy than they have been portrayed either in contemporaneous accounts or in more recent efforts to connect them to contemporary arts participatory strategiesIn Radical Prototypes Rodenbeck recovers the critical force of happenings addressing them both as theoretical objects and as artworks investigating broader epistemological and formal concerns as well as their material and performative aspects She links happenings to scores by John Cage especially 433 avantgarde theater and photography and offers new readings of projects ranging from Kaprows 18 Happenings in 6 Parts 1959 to Gerhard Richters Leben mit Pop 1963Rodenbeck casts happenings as a form of participatory art that simultaneously delivers a radical critique of that very participationa view that revises our understanding of contemporary constructions of the participatory as well as of 1960s projects from Fluxus to conceptual art
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27 track collection by the Los Angeles gospel group The Pilgrim Travelers along with the Soul Stirrers and the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi were the hardestworking bestdressed farthesttraveling and most recorded male quartet on the gospel highway During an intense period of eight years ca 19471954 they kept the same personnel and built a national career With their magnificent voices artful arrangements and outstanding showmanship the group won acclaim and fame by singing with
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King Records was the brainchild of Syd Nathan a brash but imaginative entrepreneur After many ventures he sold jewelry ran shooting galleries and promoted wrestling he decided to go into selling records He found a rundown premises and did a deal to buy an old employers stock of records for 15 each Sales racks and listening booths came free Most of his stock was hillbilly records He was surprised when tall gauntfaced folks with the lonesome sound of the mountains in their talk beg
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Hudson 1946 1957 The Classic sold at 250 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
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The San Francisco Seals were members of baseballs Pacific Coast League from 1903 until 1958 Arguably the most successful minor league franchise ever the Seals held the minor league attendance record from 1946 until it was broken by Louisville in the 1980s and remained independently owned until 1956 The Seals were also Joe DiMaggios first team and many another major league star was on the teams roster on his climb up the ranks This work is a collection of oral histories of players who took the field for the Seals from 1946 through 1957 just before the Giants came to San Francisco and when the Seals played their final game Ferris Fain said of the 1946 Seals I just think that that was the best ballclub that Ive ever played on including major league I mean as a team Frank Seward Don Trower Jack Brewer Roy Nicely Neill Sheridan Joe Brovia Bill Werle Con Dempsey Dario Lodigiani Lou Burdette Ed Cereghino Bill Bradford Reno Cheso Nini Tornay Jerry Zuvela Leo Righetti Jim Westlake Ted Beard Chuck Stevens Bob DiPietro Don Lenhardt Riverboat Smith Jack Spring and Bert Thiel also reminisce about their careers with the Seals
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This book together with its companion volume CHEVROLET the Coming of Age now out of print forms a history of the Chevrolet cars from 1911 to 1957 Covering the postwar cars manufactured from 1946 to 1959 it stands alone and has been termed an outstanding history of the marqué In it the products of the Chevrolet Division are carefully studied on an annual model change basis and taken in all it successfully describes the vehicles progression through these years The book is intended to be an aid to those interested in identifying significant features and design characteristics of the cars In addition to a study of the overall appearance mush attention has been given to providing a photographic study of the details The wheelcovers hood ornaments door knobs dashboard instruments are all carefully documentednbspnbsp nbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbsp It has been the intent of the Author to provide a comprehensive ready reference for those interested in the evolution of the Chevrolet passenger cars From the point of view of the restorer seeking to define his needs to that of an interested bystander simply indulging in nostalgia the intent has been admirably achieved
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A supersexy Marilyn Monroe leads off Volume 2 drawn as only Frank Frazetta could draw her Monroe appears in all 12 panels of the first 1956 Sunday setting the pace for the next two sizzling years Highlights for Volume 2 include Al Capps legendary parody of busybody Mary Worm led Mary Worth creator Allan Saunders to reciprocate casting Capp as a drunken and loutish cartoonist in his strip The ruckus made a national scene including Time magazine Others skewered are gay pianist Liberace bald actor Yul Brynner voluptuous actress Jayne Mansfield and actressturnedprincess Grace Kelly marrying the Prince of Monte Carload Regular cast members with plot time include Evil Eye Fleeglem Hairlessd Joe and Lonesome Polecat Moonbeam McSwine and ubercapitalist General Bullmoose Contains an introduction and extensive annotations by Lil Abner expert Denis Kitchen
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In 1946 France was in the doldrums The war the humiliation of German occupation and the rationing of all essential products had turned the City of Light into a gray and sad reflection of its former self It was at this darkest of moments that Christian Dior then a young designer for Robert Piguet and Lucien Lelong met Marcel Boussac Frances textile king and the countrys most powerful industrialist Boussac offered to set up Dior in business a lease came due on 30 Avenue Montaigne still the Dior headquarters and the young designer consulted his mystic She fell into a trance and cried out It will be extraordinary Your house will revolutionize fashionAnd so it did when in 1947 Christian Dior presented his first couture collection Women were finally given back their femininity narrow waists high and prominent busts long skirts and fabulous evening dresses made up of seemingly endless meters of luxurious cloth often beaded or embroidered by the great master Lesage Carmel Snow the American fashion doyenne proclaimed Christian its a completely new look and under this banner the worlds fashion press heralded the return of haute coutureThis book is based mostly on photographs in the Dior archives and is the detailed history of the first decade of the great houses activity when Christian Dior personally supervised every detail of his enterprise created a team of devoted collaborators and a large studio of adoring seamstresses
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A supersexy Marilyn Monroe leads off Volume 2 drawn as only Frank Frazetta could draw her Monroe appears in all 12 panels of the first 1956 Sunday setting the pace for the next two sizzling years Highlights for Volume 2 include Al Capps legendary parody of busybody Mary Worm led Mary Worth creator Allan Saunders to reciprocate casting Capp as a drunken and loutish cartoonist in his strip The ruckus made a national scene including Time magazine Others skewered are gay pianist Liberace bald actor Yul Brynner voluptuous actress Jayne Mansfield and actressturnedprincess Grace Kelly marrying the Prince of Monte Carload Regular cast members with plot time include Evil Eye Fleeglem Hairlessd Joe and Lonesome Polecat Moonbeam McSwine and ubercapitalist General Bullmoose Contains an introduction and extensive annotations by Lil Abner expert Denis Kitchen
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Volume I of The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams ends with the unexpected triumph of The Glass Menagerie Volume II extends the correspondence from 1946 to 1957 a time of intense creativity which saw the production of A Streetcar Named Desire The Rose Tattoo Camino Real and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Following the immense success of Streetcar Williams struggles to retain his prominence with a prodigious outpouring of stories poetry and novels as well as plays Several major film projects including the notorious Baby Doll bring Williams and his collaborator Elia Kazan into conflict with powerful agencies of censorship exposing both the conservative landscape of the 1950s and Williams own studied resistance to the forces of conformity Letters written to Kazan Carson McCullers Gore Vidal publisher James Laughlin and Audrey Wood Williams resourceful agent continue earlier lines of correspondence and introduce new celebrity figures The Broadway and Hollywood successes in the evolving career of Americas premier dramatist vie with a string of personal losses and a deepening depression to make this period an emotional and artistic rollercoaster for Tennessee Compiled by leading Williams scholars Albert J Devlin Professor of English at the University of Missouri and Nancy M Tischler Professor Emerita of English at the Pennsylvania State University Volume II maintains the exacting standard of Volume I called by Choice a volume that will prove indispensable to all serious students of this authormeticulous annotations greatly increase the value of this gathering
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