Radical Prototypes
Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
14 February 2014
Summary
An examination of an experiential and experimental art form that, despite its evanescence, has shaped participatory art into the present.“Happenings” have pop connotations that conjure up 1960s youth culture and hippies in public, joyful rebellion. Scholars, meanwhile, locate happenings in a genealogy of avant-garde performance that descends from futurism, surrealism, and Dada through the action painting of the 1950s. In Radical Prototypes, Judith Rodenbeck argues for a more complex etiology.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262526128 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262526123 |
| Author: | Judith F. Rodenbeck |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 14 February 2014 |
| Weight: | 635g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 14mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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About The Author
Judith F. Rodenbeck
Judith F. Rodenbeck is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Noble Foundation Chair in Modern Art and Culture at Sarah Lawrence College. She is former Editor-in-Chief of Art Journal and the coauthor of Experiments in the Everyday- Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts–Events, Objects, Documents.
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