Allan Kaprow
Allan Kaprow 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. His Happenings — some 200 of them — evolved over the years.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Atlantic City
- Educated at
- High School of Music & ArtHans Hoffman School of Fine Art
- Awards
- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"It's not what artists touch that counts most. It's what they don't touch."
"The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible."
"Pollock.. ..left us at the point where we must be preoccupied with and even dazzled by the space and objects of our everyday life, either our bodies, clothes, rooms, or, if need be, the vastness of Fo…"
"Well, you know, a lot of work nowadays tends to be illustrative of theory already written, and some of it tends to be quite consciously didactic, as if the determination is to teach somebody something…"
"The problem with artlike art, or even doses of artlike art that still linger in lifelike art, is that it overemphasizes the discourse within art."
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Timeline
1927
Born
Birth2006
Died
Death
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