American performance artist, installation artist, painter (1927–2006)
Allan Kaprow
Kaprow in 1973
Born
(1927-08-23)August 23, 1927
Atlantic City, New Jersey, US
Died
April 5, 2006(2006-04-05) (aged 78)
Encinitas, California, US
Education
Columbia University New York University
Known for
Installation art, Painting
Notable work
Happenings
Movement
Fluxus
Website
allankaprow.com
Allan Kaprow (August 23, 1927 – April 5, 2006) 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. Eventually Kaprow shifted his practice into what he called "Activities", intimately scaled pieces for one or several players, devoted to the study of normal human activity in a way congruent to ordinary life. Fluxus, performance art, and installation art were, in turn, influenced by his work.
AllanKaprow (August 23, 1927 – April 5, 2006) was an American performance artist, installation artist, painter, and assemblagist . He helped to develop...
art. The term was first used by AllanKaprow during the 1950s to describe a range of art-related events. AllanKaprow first coined the term "happening"...
map. At the New School for Social Research in New York, John Cage and AllanKaprow became involved in developing happening performance art. These carefully...
texts, and even smells. One of Kaprow's first works was Happenings in the New York Scene, written in 1961. AllanKaprow's happenings turned the public into...
and so did Dine, Whitman and Oldenburg." AllanKaprow Initially writing theatrical scores similar to Kaprow's earliest Happenings, Brecht grew increasingly...
by American conceptual artist AllanKaprow edited by Kelley. He is also the author of Childsplay: the Art of AllanKaprow, published in 2004 by UC Press...
York by George Brecht and Robert Watts in May 1963 with Ray Johnson and AllanKaprow (the culmination of a year's worth of Mail Art pieces); and a series...
spirit of performance art happenings promoted by one of his professors, AllanKaprow, than to fraternity hijinks.[citation needed] One of his actions involved...
Tom Doyle. In August 1962, Eva Hesse and Tom Doyle participated in an AllanKaprow Happening at the Art Students League of New York in Woodstock, New York...
continued to urge the leader to pursue this direction, wanting to work with AllanKaprow, for example. After Gutai, he became known for his mail art activities...
discrete category until the mid-twentieth century. AllanKaprow used the term "Environment" in 1958 (Kaprow 6) to describe his transformed indoor spaces; this...
seemingly disconnected acts. Notable creators of happenings included AllanKaprow—who first used the term in 1958, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Red Grooms...
York City along with fellow students, Dick Higgins, George Brecht, and AllanKaprow amongst others. Hansen was a frequent visitor to The Factory, Andy Warhol's...
"happenings" was coined by AllanKaprow, one of his students, who defined it as a genre in the late fifties. Cage met Kaprow while on a mushroom hunt with...
spontaneous nudity, and various random and seemingly disconnected acts. AllanKaprow, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine...
Design), as well as other influential faculty such as Stephan von Huene, AllanKaprow, Bella Lewitzky, Michael Asher, Jules Engel, John Baldessari, Judy Chicago...
Survival Research Laboratories Gianni Toti Tamás Waliczky Norman White AllanKaprow Algorithm art Artificial intelligence art Artmedia Computer art Computer...
Performance Art, called Kunst Aktionen, alongside Wiener Aktionismus that AllanKaprow and Carolee Schneemann termed Art Happenings. Today, internationally...
unconventional neo-Dadaism first hand, and via his New York City protégés AllanKaprow, Brecht, Mac Low, Al Hansen and the poet Dick Higgins. After Cage finished...
who mocked Lichtenstein's hard-to-fathom abstracts. American painter AllanKaprow once stated, in reference to a Bazooka Dubble Bubble Gum wrapper, to...
doctrine dominated the American discussions on art; meanwhile, the artists AllanKaprow, Dick Higgins, Henry Flynt, Mel Bochner, Robert Smithson and Joseph Kosuth...
Ray Johnson, Michel Tapié, Martha Jackson, Henk Peeters, Jean Clay and AllanKaprow.: 74–97 The journals consisted of documentations of members’ works and...
art movement Fluxus had a strong association with Rutgers University. AllanKaprow and Robert Watts, both key figures in the movement, originally met while...
artworks by such Fluxus artists as Higgins, Ray Johnson, Alison Knowles, AllanKaprow, George Brecht, Daniel Spoerri, Robert Filliou, Al Hansen, John Cage...