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Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings
Artist/Author: Judith F. Rodenbeck | Reference: P2798 | ISBN: 978-0262526128 | Type: Publication
Rodenbeck offers a rigorous art historical reading of Kaprow’s project and related artworks. She finds that these experiential and experimental works offered not a happy communalism but a strong and canny critique of contemporary sociality. Happenings, she argues, were far more ambivalent, negative, and even creepy than they have been portrayed, either in contemporaneous accounts or in more recent efforts to connect them to contemporary art’s participatory strategies.
18 Happenings in 6 Parts
1950s
1960s
action painting
assemblage
avant-garde theatre
behaviour
Black Mountain College
collage
criticism
Dada
environment
Fluxus
futurism
Gerhard Richter
history
Jim Dine
John Cage
language
Leben mit Pop
Marcel Duchamp
Merce Cunningham
minimalism
music
painting
participation
performance
photography
poetry
popular culture
process
readymade
Robert Rauschenberg
sound
surrealism
theatre
theatricality
theory
youth culture
