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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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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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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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Painter novelist and wrestler Drexler is the great polymath of PopRosalyn Drexler has always moved between worlds In the late 1950s and early 60s she showed sculpture at New Yorks Reuben Gallery a gathering place for artists like Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg who combined installation and performance with traditional media Drexler took part in Happenings at Reuben Gallery and at Judson Church years after her own quasiperformance as a female wrestler memorialized by Andy Warhol in the 1962 series Album of a Mat Queen Drexlers collages and largeformat paintings of the 1960s open the category of Pop art to technology and politics in a way that feels contemporary today crossing hardedge painting with depictions of sex violence race and gender roleplaying in film and mediaHer writing also crosses high and low genres comprising novels both experimental and popular avantgarde theater and writing for television including an Emmywinning Lily Tomlin special In addition to a comprehensive selection of Drexlers major paintings Who Does She Think She Is also recovers the artists early sculptures recently rediscovered and not exhibited since 1960 Documentation of Drexlers performances and theatrical work photographs evoking her role in the downtown New York scene and a selection of her books and other archival materials present her work across multiple mediums offering a comprehensive look at Drexlers varied careerRosalyn Drexler was born in 1926 in the Bronx New York In 1951 Drexler pursued a brief career as a professional wrestler under the name Rosa Carlo the Mexican Spitfire In January 1964 her work was included in the First International Girlie Exhibit at Pace Gallery New York In 1968 Drexler signed the Writers and Editors War Tax Protest pledge vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War
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As the creator of Happenings and Environments Allan Kaprow is the prince and prophet of all we call performance art today He is also known for having written some of the most thoughtful provocative and influential essays of his generation From The Legacy of Jackson Pollock in 1958 to The Meaning of Life in 1990 Kaprow has conducted a sustained philosophical inquiry into the paradoxical relationship of art to life and thus into the nature of meaning itself With the publication of this book twentythree of Kaprows most significant essays are brought together in one volume for the first timeKaprow charts his own evolution as an artist and also comments on contemporaneous developments in the arts From the modernist avantgarde of the fifties to the current postmodern fin de siècle Kaprow has written aboutand from withinthe shifting blurring boundaries of genre media culture and experience Edited and introduced by critic Jeff Kelley these essays bring into crisp focus the thinking of one of the most influential figures in the varied landscape of American art since the late 1950s
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Allan Kaprows 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
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Rutgers University from 1958 to 1972 was at the center of many new developments in the art world Artists connected with Happenings and Fluxus created works that had a major impact in New York and abroad A dozen years after Allan Kaprows first Happening on Rutgers Douglass campus in 1958 George Maciunas Mr Fluxus created his major late composition the FluxMass in the same space and Hermann Nitsch the Viennese Actionist presented his controversial OrgiesMysteriesTheaternbsp These radical shifts in art paralleled calls to rethink attitudes about race sex gender and war during turbulent times in Americas historyCritical Mass chronicles this ephemeral work on the Rutgers campus and in New York City and the innovations that grew from Bob Watts Allan Kaprow and George Brechts Project in Multiple Dimensions With texts and performance scores by artists together with numerous photographs of the events and essays by art historians and critics Hannah Higgins Jill Johnston Susan Ryan and Kristine Stiles Critical Mass presents a vivid picture of this dynamic moment This volume is a companion to an exhibit that will be on display at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College in Amherst Massachusetts from January 24 through April 27 2003 and at the Mason Gross Art Galleries at Rutgers University from September through November 2003
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As the creator of Happenings and Environments Allan Kaprow is the prince and prophet of all we call performance art today He is also known for having written some of the most thoughtful provocative and influential essays of his generation From The Legacy of Jackson Pollock in 1958 to The Meaning of Life in 1990 Kaprow has conducted a sustained philosophical inquiry into the paradoxical relationship of art to life and thus into the nature of meaning itself With the publication of this book twentythree of Kaprows most significant essays are brought together in one volume for the first timeKaprow charts his own evolution as an artist and also comments on contemporaneous developments in the arts From the modernist avantgarde of the fifties to the current postmodern fin de siècle Kaprow has written aboutand from withinthe shifting blurring boundaries of genre media culture and experience Edited and introduced by critic Jeff Kelley these essays bring into crisp focus the thinking of one of the most influential figures in the varied landscape of American art since the late 1950s
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In early October 1959 thirtytwoyearold Allan Kaprow presented a performance piece entitled 18 Happenings in 6 Parts This unique conjunction of visual aural and physical events performed for an intimate art world audience by his friends and colleagues would change the course of art history The genre of artwork that evolved from this debut would become known as Happenings This new volume provides a comprehensive look at this revolutionary art form Prepared in conjunction with an exhibition at the Pace Gallery in New York it focuses on the years that saw the movements birth in New York and Provincetown Mass and the artists who made the genre a legend Red Grooms Allan Kaprow Robert Whitman Jim Dine Claes Oldenburg Simone Forti Carolee Schneemann Together they created a new and outrageous art form with an anything goes attitude one whose influence is still felt within the contemporary art world Author Mildred Glimcher an art historian
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Allan Girdler with Photography by David Dewhurst In 1957 HarleyDavidson bowed to customer pressure and grafted an overheadvalve top end unto the fourcam bottom end of its floundering KL series of middleweight motorcycles The resulting motorcycle the Sportster earned the distinction of being the most iconoclastic motorcycle model ever produced In continuous production for 44 years and counting the Sportster longago abdicated its original title as the king of high performance motorcycles yet it remains one of the worlds most popular motorcycles despite using antiquated technology The elegant simplicity of the Sportster embodies what Robert Persig calls the a priori motorcycle That is when most people close their eyes and conjure up the image of a motorcycle it is something very similar to a Sportster that immediately springs to mind It is this raw essential nature that propels the Sportster to mythic status
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