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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.
Allan Kaprow first coined the term "happening" in the spring of 1959 at an art picnic at George Segal's farm to describe the art pieces being performed. [2] The first appearance in print about one was in Kaprow's famous "Legacy of Jackson Pollock" essay that was published in 1958 but
Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts, both key figures in the movement, originally met while they were students at Columbia University; though only together there for one year, soon after they both began teaching at Rutgers. George Brecht was working in New Brunswick, New Jersey when he saw the work of Robert Watts on display at the university. He was ...
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 ...
Painter and performance artist Allan Kaprow was a member of the Hansa Gallery. Painter Miriam Laufer , pictured in 1962, is a member of the Phoenix Gallery . Painter Emily Mason , photographed in 2016, was a member of the Area Gallery .
Watts introduced her to Allan Kaprow, who persuaded her to perform in his Spring Happening, her first performance. [3] She continued to perform in Happenings throughout the 1960s, often appearing nude or scantily clad. After graduating from Douglas, Eisenhauer moved to Paris, France where she worked in the editing department of a fashion magazine.
Poster to Festum Fluxorum Fluxus 1963. George Maciunas (English: / m ə ˈ tʃ uː n ə s /; Lithuanian: Jurgis Mačiūnas; November 8, 1931 Kaunas – May 9, 1978 Boston, Massachusetts) was a Lithuanian American artist, art historian, and art organizer who was the founding member and central coordinator of Fluxus, [1] an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers.
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 .