Off limits
Subtitle: Rutgers University and the avant-garde, 1957-1963
By: edited by Joan Marter ; with essays by Simon Anderson ... [et al.].
Contributors: Marter, Joan M.; Anderson, Simon.; Newark Museum.
Publisher: Newark Museum; Rutgers University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Newark, N.J; New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Rutgers University -- Influence -- Exhibitions; Artists as teachers -- New Jersey -- New Brunswick -- Exhibitions; Arts, American -- New Jersey -- New Brunswick -- 20th century -- Exhibitions; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- New Jersey -- New Brunswick -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: Off Limits is the first examination of a group of artists who came together on the campus of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, during the 1950s and revolutionized art practices and pedagogy. Based on interviews with artists, critics, and dealers from the period, the book connects the initiation of major trends such as Happenings, Pop Art, and Fluxus to the faculty, students, art curriculum, and events at the university.

By constantly challenging one another to take art "Off Limits," George Brecht, Geoffrey Hendricks, Allan Kaprow, Roy Lichtenstein, Lucas Samaras, George Segal, Robert Watts, and Robert Whitman defied the art world, bringing Abstract Expressionism to a screeching halt and setting the stage for the art of the rest of the century. Off Limits accompanies a major exhibition of the same title at The Newark Museum, February 18 - May 16, 1999.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-178) and index.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Newark Museum, Newark, N.J., Feb. 18-May 16, 1999.