TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaprow,Allan
AU  - Kelley,Jeff
TI  - Essays on the blurring of art and life
T2  - Lannan series of contemporary art criticism
SN  - 0520070666
AV  - NX504 .K36 1993
U1  - 700.973 
PY  - 1993///]
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Arts, American
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-246) and index; Part I. The fifties --; The legacy of Jackson Pollock; (1958) --; Notes on the creation of a total art; (1958) --; Part II. The sixties --; Happenings in the New York scene; (1961) --; Impurity; (1963) --; The artist as a man of the world; (1964) --; The happenings are dead : Long live the happenings!; (1966) --; Experimental art; (1966) --; Manifesto; (1966) --; Pinpointing happenings; (1967) --; The shape of the art environment; (1968) --; Part III. The seventies --; The education of the un-artist; Part I (1971) --; The education of the un-artist, Part II (1972) --; Doctor MD; (1973) --; The education of the un-artist, Part III (1974) --; Video art : old wine, new bottle; (1974) --; Formalism : flogging a dead horse; (1974) --; Nontheatrical performance; (1976) --; Participation performance; (1977) --; Performing life; (1979) --; Part IV. The eighties --; The real experiment; (1983) --; Art which can't be art; (1986)--; Right living; (1987) --; Part V. The nineties --; The meaning of life; (1990)
N2  - "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
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0735/93018080-b.html
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