Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings

Notes

Rodenbeck offers a rigorous art historical reading of Kaprow’s project and related artworks. She finds that these experiential and experimental works offered not a happy communalism but a strong and canny critique of contemporary sociality. Happenings, she argues, were far more ambivalent, negative, and even creepy than they have been portrayed, either in contemporaneous accounts or in more recent efforts to connect them to contemporary art’s participatory strategies.

Artist / Author	Judith F. Rodenbeck
Publisher	MIT Press
ISBN	978-0262526128
Reference	P2798
Date	2011
Type	Publication

Keywords

18 Happenings in 6 Parts 1950s 1960s action painting assemblage avant-garde theatre behaviour Black Mountain College collage criticism Dada environment Fluxus futurism Gerhard Richter history Jim Dine John Cage language Leben mit Pop Marcel Duchamp Merce Cunningham minimalism music painting participation performance photography poetry popular culture process readymade Robert Rauschenberg sound surrealism theatre theatricality theory youth culture

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