Allan Kaprow
Subtitle: art as life
By: edited by Eva Meyer-Hermann, Andrew Perchuk and Stephanie Rosenthal
Contributors: Meyer-Hermann, Eva; Perchuk, Andrew; Rosenthal, Stephanie; Haus der Kunst München; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum; Kunsthalle Bern; Villa Croce (Museum : Genoa, Italy); Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780500238486
Subjects: Exhibitions; Criticism and interpretation; Archives
Other titles: Art as life
Description: This richly illustrated volume documents five decades of Kaprow's life and work. Its six essays range across his shifts from painter to environmental artist to the inventor of the Happening and the Activity, while its extensive chronology features scores, letters, posters, photographs, and clippings, most drawn from the Allan Kaprow Papers held by the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute. Though the forms Kaprow largely invented have lost their shock value and were meant in most cases to be ephemeral, in fact they live on, captured in scores and other surviving documentation, still stretching the boundaries of art in the modern world.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Haus der Kunst, Munich, Oct. 17, 2006-Jan. 21, 2007; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Feb. 10-Apr. 22, 2007; Kunsthalle Bern, Jun. 2-Aug. 26, 2007; Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genoa, Nov. 29, 2007-Feb. 10, 2008; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Mar. 23-Jun. 30, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early works and writings. "Only memory can carry it into the future" : Kaprow's development from the action-collages to the happenings / Paul Schimmel; title: Writing the happening : the aesthetics of nonart / Alex Potts; title: From the archive. Time pieces / Glenn Phillips; title: Intimate : the Allan Kaprow papers / Annette Leddy; title: The making of a retrospective. Agency for action / Stephanie Rosenthal; title: Museum as mediation / Eva Meyer-Hermann.