Allan Kaprow

Allan Kaprow ( born August 23, 1927 in Atlantic City, † April 5, 2006 in Encinitas in San Diego ) was an American artist and art theoretician of action art. To him the term " Happening " is back.

Life

Kaprow studied art, art history and composition. He was strongly influenced by the composer John Cage, and sought the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock overcome.

In the center of his art were space and gesture. He organized together with George Maciunas, George Brecht and Al Hansen first happenings in New York ( at the Reuben Gallery) and produced Environments on. His writings on art theory include important theses on Environment, Happenings and Intermedia Art

Work

Kaprow is considered the father of the happenings, an art term he coined in New York in 1958. Happenings were hybrid forms of avant-garde performances - with no apparent drama and collage-like, often simultaneously organized events, with blurred boundaries between performers and audience, the sense of appealing, open to chance and improvisation, as well as the surrounding, everyday situations - where a variety of art media (painting, music, dance, theater) were disguised as ordinary everyday objects ( newspaper, noise, body movements, everyday activities ) and joined together to theater-like events.

Since 1958, more than 250 of Allan Kaprow's Happenings and Activities have been implemented, including of major institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Walker Art Center ( Minneapolis ), MIT (Cambridge, MA ), the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris) and the Documenta in Kassel.

In October 2006, the Haus der Kunst in Munich offered a retrospective of his work. The estate of Allan Kaprow is represented by Hauser & Wirth Zurich London.

Happenings

  • "Communication Happening " (New Brunswick / New Jersey 1958)
  • " 18 Happenings in 6 Parts " (New York, 1959)
  • " Chicken" (Philadelphia, 1962)
  • " The Courtyard " (New York, 1962)
  • " Eat" (New York, 1964)
  • "Calling " (New York, 1965)
  • "Soap " ( Sarasote / Florida, 1965)
  • "Gas " (New York, 1966)
  • " Self-service " (Boston, New York, Los Angeles, 1966)
  • " Fluids" (1967)
  • " Travelog " (New York, 1968)
  • " Fluid " (Basel, 2005)
  • " City Works" ( Bochum 1971)
  • " BTU Basic Thermal Units " ( Bochum, Essen, Duisburg 1972)
  • "Seven Kinds of Sympathy" (Vienna 1976)
  • " Happening the wrong pictures " ( Time, March 20, 1981 )

Environments

  • " Penny Arcade " (1956)
  • "Untitled Environment" (1958 )
  • "Yard " (1961)
  • "Words" (1962 )

Writings

  • From Kaprow Allan Kaprow: The Legacy of Jackson Pollock, in: Art News, Bd.57, October, 1958
  • Allan Kaprow: Happenings in the New York Scene, Art News, May, 1961
  • Allan Kaprow, Assemblage, Environments and Happenings (1966 )
  • Allan Kaprow: Some Recent Happenings. New York 1966 ( A Great Bear Pamphlet. No.. 7). Re: ubuclassics 2004 pdf 592K
  • Allan Kaprow: Untitled Essays and Other Works. New York 1967 ( A Great Bear Pamphlet. [No. 16] ). Re: ubuclassics pdf 796k
  • Allan Kaprow: The Education of the Un -Artist, Part I, Art News, February, 1971
  • Allan Kaprow: The Education of the Un -Artist, Part II, Art News, May, 1972
  • Allan Kaprow: The Education of the Un -Artist, Part III, Art in America, January, 1974
  • Allan Kaprow: Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life. Berkeley, University of California Press 1993, ISBN 0-520-07066-6
  • Allan Kaprow: fluid. Cologne: König 2005, 70 S., Ill. only, 1 Posters, ISBN 3-88375-996-1
  • About Kaprow Jürgen Claus, " " The Happening ", in: " Art today. People. Analyzes. Documents ", rowohlts German encyclopaedia, Reinbek / Hamburg 1965, pp. 208 ff
  • Jeff Kelley ( ed.): Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life, Berkeley: University of California Press 1993, XXVI, 258 S., Ill, ISBN 0-520-20562-6
  • Philip Ursprung: Household - Allan Kaprow's economy, pp. 6-18, in: Parkett. Zurich [ inter alia ]: Parkett -Verlag, (2001), no. 62 ISSN 0256-0917
  • Philip Ursprung: boundaries of art. Allan Kaprow and the Happening, Robert Smithson and the Land Art Munich: Schreiber 2003, 405 S., Ill., ISBN 3-88960-046-8
  • Jeff Kelley: Childsplay. The Art of Allan Kaprow, Berkeley: University of California Press 2004, xxi, 249 pp., zahlr. Ill, ISBN 0-520-23671-8
  • Thomas Dreher: Performance Art after 1945 Action Theater and Intermedia.. Munich 2001, ISBN 3-7705-3452-2, S.65f. , 85-102, 139ff. , 250-254, 366f. (Notes contain bibliographic data of individual happenings ).
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