Allan Kaprow
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Allan Kaprow (August 23, 1927 – April 5, 2006) was an American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. In the 1960s, his "happenings," a form of spontaneous, non-linear action, revolutionized the practice of performance art.
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Publications[edit]
- How to Make a Happening, 1966. LP.
- editor, Assemblages, Environments and Happenings, New York: H.N. Abrams, 1966, 341 pp. Excerpt. [1]
- Some Recent Happenings, 1966; ubu.classics, 2004.
- Comfort Zones, Madrid: Galería Vandres, 1975, 28 pp. Catalogue.
- Echo-logy, New York: D'Arc, 1975, [10] pp. Catalogue.
- Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life, ed. Jeff Kelley, University of California Press, 1993, 258 pp.
Catalogues[edit]
- B.H.D. Buchloh, Judith F. Rodenbeck, Experiments in the Everyday: Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts, Events, Objects, Documents, New York: Columbia University, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, 1999. [2]
Literature[edit]
- Judith F. Rodenbeck, Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings, MIT Press, 2011.
- Eva Ehninger , "What’s Happening? Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg Argue about Art and Life", Getty Research Journal 6, 2014, pp 195-202.
