Allan Kaprow, Robert Smithson, and the limits to art
By: by Philip Ursprung ; translated by Fiona Elliott
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berkeley, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780520245419
Subjects: Art movements; ART / American / General; Criticism and interpretation; History
Work titles: Grenzen der Kunst
Description: "This innovative study of two of the most important artists of the twentieth century links the art practices of Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson in their attempts to test the limits of art--both what it is and where it is. Ursprung provides a sophisticated yet accessible analysis, placing the two artists firmly in the art world of the 1960s as well as in the art historical discourse of the following decades. Although their practices were quite different, they both extended the studio and gallery into desert landscapes, abandoned warehouses, industrial sites, train stations, and other spaces. Ursprung bolsters his argument with substantial archival research and sociological and economic models of expansion and limits"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.