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Kaprow, Allan

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Personal name headingKaprow, Allan
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See alsoGraduate of: Columbia University
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Associated countryUnited States
Associated placeSan Diego (Calif.)
Birth date1927-08-23
Death date2006-04-05
Place of birthAtlantic City (N.J.)
Place of deathEncinitas (Calif.)
Field of activityHappenings (Art) Painting Art--Study and teaching
AffiliationFluxus (Group of artists)
Rutgers University Pratt Institute State University of New York at Stony Brook California Institute of the Arts University of California, San Diego
Profession or occupationArtists University and college faculty members
Found inHis Collagen, Environments, Videos, Broschùˆren, Geschichten ... 1986: verso t.p. (Allan Kaprow) p. 21, etc. (b. 8/23/1927 in Atlantic City; artist)
LC data base, 5-15-87 (hdg.: Kaprow, Allan)
New York times WWW site, Apr. 10, 2006 (Allan Kaprow; b. in Atlantic City; d. Wednesday [Apr. 5, 2006], Encinitas, Calif., aged 78; artist who coined the term "happenings" in the late 1950s and whose anti-art, audience-participation works contributed to radical changes in the course of late-20th-century art)
Allan Kaprow, Robert Smithson, and the limits to art, 2013
Wikipedia, January 11, 2022: Allan Kaprow (Allan Kaprow (August 23, 1927--April 5, 2006) was an American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. 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; He received his MA degree from Columbia University in art history; Kaprow started his studio career as a painter, and later co-founded the Hansa and Reuben Galleries in New York and became the director of the Judson Gallery; Kaprow began teaching at Rutgers University in 1953. While there, he helped to create the Fluxus group, along with professors Robert Watts, Geoffrey Hendricks and Roy Lichtenstein, artists George Brecht and George Segal, and undergraduates Lucas Samaras and Robert Whitman; he taught at Rutgers until 1961, Pratt Institute from 1960 to 1961, the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1961 to 1966, and the California Institute of the Arts from 1966 to 1974, before serving as a full-time faculty member at the University of California, San Diego, where he taught from 1974 to 1993)
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