Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life
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Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life by Allan Kaprow
Allan Kaprow's 'happenings' and 'environments' were the precursors to contemporary performance art, and his essays are some of the most thoughtful, provocative, and influential of his generation. His sustained inquiry into the paradoxical relationship of art to life and into the nature of meaning itself is brought into focus in this newly expanded collection of his most significant writings. A new preface and two new additional essays published in the 1990s bring this valuable collection up to date.
"Throughout these essays there is a lyric impulse, a rising of the heart, a moral passion that represents the spirit of the 60s at its bestAt the same time Kaprow's thinking is exceedingly rigorous. . . . He has the optimism of the period without its willed naïveté." * Art in America *
Allan Kaprow is Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. Jeff Kelley is a critic and teacher.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520240797 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520240790 |
| Title | Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life |
| Author | Allan Kaprow |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2003-12-15 |
| Number of pages | 297 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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