Off Limits is the first examination of the Rutgers group, artists who came together on the Rutgers University, New Brunswick campus during the 1950s and revolutionized art practices and pedagogy. Based on interviews with artists, critics, and dealers from the period, the book connects the initiation of major trends such as Happenings, Pop Art, and Fluxus to the faculty, students, art curriculum, and events at the university. It is the first book to look not only at the work of individual artists, but to consider how ...
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Off Limits is the first examination of the Rutgers group, artists who came together on the Rutgers University, New Brunswick campus during the 1950s and revolutionized art practices and pedagogy. Based on interviews with artists, critics, and dealers from the period, the book connects the initiation of major trends such as Happenings, Pop Art, and Fluxus to the faculty, students, art curriculum, and events at the university. It is the first book to look not only at the work of individual artists, but to consider how interactions between these artists influenced their groundbreaking work.
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Add this copy of Off Limits: Rutgers University and the Avant-Garde, to cart. $40.00, very good condition, Sold by Black Cat Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sag Harbor, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Rutgers University Press.
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Fine/VG+ (light rubbing to dj but no chips or tears) Black cloth / boards with silver lettering. Bw-illus. dj with yellow/turquoise lettering on silver spine. 194 pp. with 31 color plates and 93 bw figures. The work of Brecht, Hendricks, Kaprow, Lichtenstein, Samaras, Segal, Watts, Whitman, with essays by Simon Anderson, Joseph Jacobs, Jackson Lears, Joan Marter, and Kristine Stiles. Catalogue from the exhibition held at the Newark Museum, New Jersey, February through May, 1999. Includes a chronology of events, interviews with the artists, list of illustrations, and more. This was the first examination of a group of artists who came together on the Rutgers campus, in the 1950s, and revolutionized art practices and pedagogy. The book connects the initiation of major trends such as Happenings, Pop Art, and Fluxus to the faculty, students, art curriculum, and events at the university. These artists brought Abstract Expressionism to a screeching halt and set the stage for the art of the rest of the 20th century. (paraphrased from the dj).
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Add this copy of Off Limits Rutgers University and the Avant-Garde, 1957 to cart. $2,470.00, new condition, Sold by BWS Bks rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ferndale, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Rutgers University Press.
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New. 0813526094. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--216 pages. Description: " 'Off Limits' examines a group of Rutgers artists who came together on the Rutgers University, New Brunswick, campus during the 1950"s and revolutionized art practices and pedagogy. This groundbreaking book features more than 140 illustrations as well as interviews with Allan Kaprow, Roy Lichtenstein, Lucas Samaras, George Segal, Robert Whitman, and Geoffrey Hendricks. Essays are by Simon Anderson, Joseph Jacobs, Jackson Lears, Joan Marter, and Kristine Stiles. Also included is 'Project in Multiple Dimensions, ' a previously unpublished statement by Kaprow, Robert Watts, and George Brecht about their commitment to art and technology, and an uncanny prediction about the future of art. Rutgers was clearly the place to be for experimental artists during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Allan Kaprow's first Happening, Roy Lichtenstein's first Pop paintings, George Segal's earliest figurative tableaux, and photo-Fluxus events and Conceptual Art by Robert Watts and George Brecht all were made or took place on or near the Rutgers campus. Simultaneously, Lucas Samaras was painting with smoke on aluminum foil and embedding razor blades in boards, and Robert Whitman was making installations incorporating film projections, the forerunner of video installation. This innovative group boldly rejected the then-fashionable Abstract Expressionism and created startling new artforms that still prevail at the end of the century."--with a bonus offer--
