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Mar 12, 2016 · In October 1959, artist and Rutgers professor Allan Kaprow presented 18 Happenings in 6 Parts at the Reuben Gallery in New York’s East Village. Although he had experimented with the form earlier, this marked the first use of the term “Happening.” (The invitation studiously avoided labels, however, stating: “The present event is created in a medium which Mr. Kaprow finds refreshing to ...
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Allan Kaprow was born in 1927 in New Jersey. During his early years, he experienced chronic illness that forced him to move from New York to Tuscon, Arizona where he spent the rest of his childhood. There, separated from his Jewish, middle-class roots, he experienced life on a ranch, giving him a sense of the communal activity that came to dominate...
Allan Kaprow's early artistic career was as an Abstract Expressionist; he trained at the Hans Hoffman School of Fine Arts from 1947-48. Developing a dynamic and expressive style, Kaprow had absorbed the action painting techniques of Pollock and the others, finding meaning in the physical ("action") relationship between the artist and his work. Movi...
Beginning in 1954, Kaprow and other young artists from the Hoffman school had established and exhibited at the Hansa Gallery, an emerging institution on the New York art scene, where eventually Kaprow's notorious performative experiments took place. At the same time, Kaprow was teaching art history at Rutgers and attending classes of experimental m...
By the end of the 1960s, Kaprow began to disassociate himself from the term happening, which he saw as being exploited by the mainstream media. He started to follow a more private, introspective path, influenced by his studies in Zen Buddhism. He concentrated on creating intimate events he termed Activities. Working mainly with individuals or coupl...
Kaprow presents a contradictory portrait; an artist seeking the direct and ephemeral relations between art, the artist, and the audience achieved in the "here and now" of everyday life, and a deep and prolific thinker, teacher and writer who meticulously planned and theorized every instantiation of his work. His lifelong quest to "unart" art practi...
- American
- August 23, 1927
- Atlantic City, New Jersey
- April 5, 2006
Apr 29, 2024 · Allan Kaprow (born Aug. 23, 1927, Atlantic City, N.J., U.S.—died April 5, 2006, Encinitas, Calif.) was an American performance artist, theoretician, and instructor who invented the name Happening for his performances and who helped define the genre’s characteristics. Kaprow studied in New York City at the High School of Music & Art (now ...
Apr 4, 2014 · If you like friends, games and taking credit for the experience of others, Happenings are for you. To help y'all figure this out, I translated Kaprow's 1966 essay, "Notes on the Elimination of the ...
The exhibition featured the work of two seminal figures of this new media art, presenting Allan Kaprow's (American, 1927–2006) site-specific piece Moving(1967) as well as photographs of previous performances by Kaprow and Wolf Vostell (German, 1932–2006), an originator of the European happening. In 1959, with the piece 18 Happenings in 6 ...
THE ORIGIN OF HAPPENING. NN THE LATE 1950s all the avant garde arts tended increasingly. fuse, as artists explored new media. Visual artists such as. Kaprow made extensive collages, using machines, mirrors that. reflected the spectators, and, ultimately, live performers. Kaprow realized he needed a term to describe what was obviously developing ...
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Website. allankaprow .com. Allan Kaprow (August 23, 1927 – April 5, 2006) was an American performance artist, installation artist, painter, and assemblagist . He helped to develop the "Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. His Happenings — some 200 of them — evolved over the years.
