Essays on the blurring of art and life /
Allan Kaprow ; edited by Jeff Kelley.
- xxvi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Lannan series of contemporary art criticism ; 3 .
- Lannan series of contemporary art criticism ; 3. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-246) and index.
The legacy of Jackson Pollock Notes on the creation of a total art Happenings in the New York scene Impurity The artist as a man of the world The happenings are dead : Long live the happenings! Experimental art Manifesto Pinpointing happenings The shape of the art environment The education of the un-artist, Doctor MD Video art : old wine, new bottle Formalism : flogging a dead horse Nontheatrical performance Participation performance Performing life The real experiment Art which can't be art Right living The meaning of life Part I. The fifties -- (1958) -- (1958) -- Part II. The sixties -- (1961) -- (1963) -- (1964) -- (1966) -- (1966) -- (1966) -- (1967) -- (1968) -- Part III. The seventies -- Part I (1971) -- The education of the un-artist, Part II (1972) -- (1973) -- The education of the un-artist, Part III (1974) -- (1974) -- (1974) -- (1976) -- (1977) -- (1979) -- Part IV. The eighties -- (1983) -- (1986)-- (1987) -- Part V. The nineties -- (1990)
"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, twenty-three of Kaprow's most significant essays are brought together in one volume for the first time.Kaprow charts his own evolution as an artist and also comments on contemporaneous developments in the arts. From the modernist avant-garde of the fifties to the current postmodern fin de siecle, Kaprow has written about--and from within--the 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."--Publisher description.