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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.
Letty Lou Eisenhauer (May 30, 1935 – April 25, 2023) was an American visual and performance artist known for her free-spirited Fluxus performances during the 1960s. She was on faculty at the Borough of Manhattan Community College as a counselor, professor, and forensic psychologist .
Job #1 by Jim Dine, 1962, Honolulu Museum of Art. In 1958 Dine moved to New York, where he taught at the Rhodes School. [4] In the same year he founded the Judson Gallery at the Judson Church in Greenwich Village with Claes Oldenburg and Marcus Ratliff, eventually meeting Allan Kaprow and Bob Whitman: together they became pioneers of happenings and performances, including Dine's The Smiling ...
Allan Kaprow coined the term happening to describe the art performances that took place on Segal's farm in the Spring of 1957. Events for Yam Festival also took place there. After his death on June 9, 2000, he was interred at Washington Cemetery in South Brunswick, New Jersey.
In August 1962, Eva Hesse and Tom Doyle participated in an Allan Kaprow Happening at the Art Students League of New York in Woodstock, New York. There Hesse made her first three-dimensional piece: a costume for the Happening. [20] In 1963, Eva Hesse had a one-person show of works on paper at the Allan Stone Gallery on New York's Upper East Side ...
Childsplay: The Art of Allan Kaprow; Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life Jeff Kelley is an art critic, author, and curator. A practicing art critic since 1977, his reviews and essays about artists including Chinese conceptual artist Ai Weiwei have appeared in publications including Artforum , Art in America , and the Los Angeles Times .
The Smolin Gallery was an avant-garde art venue and gallery on 57th Street in New York City, [1] at its peak in the 1960s. It was known for its involvement with installation art, performance art and experimental art, and was best known for the Allan Kaprow assemblage performance of September 11–12, 1962 entitled "Words", [2] believed to be the first allowing the audience to participate in an ...
Something Else Press was founded by Dick Higgins in 1963. It published many important Intermedia texts and artworks by such Fluxus artists as Higgins, Ray Johnson, Alison Knowles, Allan Kaprow, George Brecht, Daniel Spoerri, Robert Filliou, Al Hansen, John Cage, Emmett Williams and by such important modernist figures as Gertrude Stein, Henry Cowell, and Bern Porter.