A self-described un-artist, 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 creation.This richly illustrated volume documents five decades of Kaprow's life and work. Its six essays range across his shifts from painter to environmental artist to the inventor of the Happening and the Activity, ...
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A self-described un-artist, 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 creation.This richly illustrated volume documents five decades of Kaprow's 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 world."
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Add this copy of Allan Kaprow--Art as Life to cart. $60.00, very good condition, Sold by Jero Books and Templet Co. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Monica, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Getty Research Institute.
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Very Good. No DJ Issued. Individual Artist. 8vo SQUARE. First Edition (2008. ) Hardcover without dust jacket as issued. Square 8vo with 359 pages. The book is in very good condition with very slight shelf wear. Interior is clean and tight. Profusely illustrated. Pictures available upon request. "Fascinating, dynamic, and edgy best describe this captivating work about the life and career of multidimensional artist Allan Kaprow. This richly illustrated volume documents five decades of Kaprow's life and work. Its six essays range across his shifts from painter to environmental artist to the inventor of the Happening and the Activity." Green spine/Black-White text.
Add this copy of Allan Kaprow--Art as Life to cart. $100.00, very good condition, Sold by Moe's Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by J. Paul Getty Museum.
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New. 089236890X. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--Text in English. 376 pp. With 415 ills. (211 col. ). 25 x 25 cm. --with a bonus offer--
